Here and Now

I often shake my head when I hear the Gospel presented as if God changed His mind (as if He could) as some point in history about how to save us.  Some present it is if God gave the Old Testament law, then, seeing that we could not meet His righteous requirements, He decided to fulfill it Himself in Jesus Christ.  Like the entire New Testament is the result of some Holy audible God called because He was surprised by how sinful and corrupted we are. But this is a grave misunderstanding of God and His grace. God didn't have a Plan B.  Jesus Christ is Plan A, and the only plan God ever had.  Giving us the law was meant to lead us to repentance and to an understanding of our desperate need for a Savior.  Jesus' life, death, resurrection, and ascension were planned from the foundation of the world. But Plan A is not complete.  It won't be until Christ returns to fulfill all things.  So what is supposed to happen until He does?  Wel...

Busy day around the old Grzywinski household today…             First, Turk (my buddy, our awesome little Yorkie) got violently ill this morning and I had to take him to the vet.   Turns out he has pancreatitis.   He is going to be fine, but the poor little guy has to eat nothing but boiled chicken for a few days, and his birthday is tomorrow to boot!             This kinda put a crimp in the day’s schedule.   We were planning on continuing the attic clean-out today, Saturday is my busy day (fine tuning Sunday service, printing bulletins, etc.), and there are always the day before fellowship Sunday things to do.   And, of course, everything needs to be done by kickoff tonight (Jets vs. Giants!!).             There was a time that all of this would have made me super anxious.   I mean, ta...

Okay, I know I may be behind the times, but I found this new thing called "Blogging". I wonder if anyone else is doing it... Anyway, the days of writing a (mostly) weekly SFTW in Word and e-mailing a document that some could open and some could not are now behind me. Instead, I will be writing right here. Please enter your e-mail address in the little box on the right and subscribe to the SFTW blog. Then, I assume, this internet thingy somehow alerts you when I post something new and you will get a message in your inbox thingy. (Sorry, I didn't mean to get so technical...) Will I post every week? Hopefully. I think with the ease of this new "Blogging" thing, I may even post more than that. Either way, I'd love to have your support in this and I'd love to have you read what God puts on my heart to write. I still love you all!