Whose Word Gives Life?

I had a neat opportunity to go to a conference for church leaders this week. The major focus of the conference was that what our churches really need to be successful and fruitful is for God' Word to be faithfully preached each week. Cool ministries, special events, kids' programming is all well and good- but so not essential, and, oftentimes, distracting from the importance of God's Word- his written Word and the Word in the flesh- Jesus.

It was such a simple and yet profound thought. All we really need is the Word. It alone gives life. It creates and recreates. It brings life to dead places. Hallelujah!

I would like to remind you that all your home really needs to be successful and fruitful is God's Word as well.

So I'd like to take the opportunity each day to provide you with a Word to hold on to- to lift you up and bring you life.

It's my hope that this blog is encouraging and uplifting to you- but all my words are human and fallen. They are redeemable but they don't have redeeming power. But HIS words, do : )

So, at the end of each post, I am going to have a few verses for you. They may be directly related to what I wrote (like today's) or they might not. Doesn't matter. His Word is always applicable and always life-giving.

Let's rejoice in that truth together!!

Isaiah 55:10-11

"As the rain and the snow

come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.