St.
Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church
Chilkat Valley
Episcopal Mission
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How To Keep Going With God Summary of a great Sermon by Ven. Mark Boesser
1. Make A New Start Each Day - Forgiveness for the past Hope in Christ for the future His risen presence and resurrection power with us today
2. Keep Short Accounts - Take inventory frequently Promptly admit it when you are wrong Seek God's forgiveness and other person's Make amends whenever possible, except when to do so will injure more than help Forgive those who have injured you
3. Enjoy The Journey - "On the way" is important as well as the destination Joy in Christ, even in the midst of difficulty, hardship, pain
4. Keep Under Orders - We exist to serve Him, not He us. Remember Who's in charge Regarding the work He sets us to : Accept it from Him, do it for Him, leave it with Him
5. Keep Fellowship With God - Practice the presence of God through prayer, meditation, study of the Bible, corporate worship, especially Holy Communion You want God's Holy Spirit in your life, ... ask Him
6. Keep Fellowship With Others - Single logs don't burn well Christ comes to people through people
7. Witness To The Love Of God, The Grace Of God In Jesus Christ - Daily Don't hesitate to use your own experience and the experience of others to tell what Christ has done ... what Christ can do
8. Find Areas Of Need - around you. Expand your horizon Seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbor as yourself. With God's help strive for justice and peace among all people, respecting the dignity of every human being
9. Give God The Praise - Whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God through Him
I am a little church (no great cathedral) Far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities --I do not worry if briefer days grow briefest, I am not sorry when sun and rain make april
My life is the life of the reaper and the sower, My prayers are prayers of earth’s own clumsily striving (finding and losing and laughing and crying) children whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness
around me surges a miracle of unceasing birth and glory and death and resurrection: over my sleeping self float flaming symbols of hope, and I wake to a perfect patience of mountains
I am a little church (far from the frantic world with its rapture and Anguish) at peace with nature --I do not worry if longer nights grow longest, I am not sorry when silence becomes singing
Winter by spring, I lift my diminutive spire to Merciful Him Whose only now is forever: S tanding erect in the deathless truth of His presence(welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness) ---E.E.Cumings
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