It's Been Awhile

Good Morning to my blogging friends! It's been a week and a half since I've been on, but I have good reason! I took a group of my students to Baptist Bible College this past week for their College Days! High school students get a chance to live on campus, go to class, meet friends and see the city of Springfield Missouri. It was a fantastic trip!!

In one of the chapel services, the speaker (Duke Haggard) challenged us with the question "What Is Cool?" He's an old hippie who endured '69 and Woodstock, but accepted Christ in the 70's and now has a great ministry in New York. His thoughts were this: Society constantly tells us what is cool. Expensive clothes, new cars, facebook, good looks, beer, etc. is cool according to our world. But if we look at our world with a Biblical Worldview, we'd see that the "cool" things in our society are the things Christ would consider cool. Things like "Love", and "Truth", and "Serving Jesus." Seriously, what is cooler than Love? 1st Corinthians 13 tells us that we can have knowledge, faith and a whole lot of things, but if we don't have love then none of it matters. Love is cool.

Who likes being lied to? Do you like when your husband lies to you? What about when your best friend lies to you? No way! Truth is a very cool thing. I joke around a lot and sometimes my students don't know when I'm telling the truth or lying about something. In all reality, I've told them, I've never lied to you about anything. If I tell them some cool story about something I've done, they normally don't believe me and they investigate by asking my wife, talking to my friends and family, etc. only to find out that I was telling the truth. Truth is real cool.

And, serving Jesus is real cool. Read John 13. This is the story of Jesus washing the disciples feet. Check this out, customarily, the host of the home would have their servant wash the feet of his guest. Sandles mixed with lack of pavement (dirt roads) and absence of cars (lots of walking) meant really, really dirty feet. So, it was custom to have your servant wash the feet of your guest. Well, in John 13, they were in a borrowed room. There was no host. So, when it was time to have feet washed, none of the disciples stepped up. Jesus took off His outer robe and took the water and wash cloth into His own hands. He showed them what it meant to truly serve others and encouraged them to follow after His example. Serving Jesus is really cool!

Anyway, hope this was encouraged to you today. Be Cool!