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Sermon: The Heart of the Matter

Hey all!!!

So, at my church, we recently got a new head pastor, and he’s so dynamic and powerful in the pulpit, I love hearing him speak! He gave a very interesting sermon today about worship.

He used the song “Heart of Worship” as an introduction to his sermon, which was titled “The Heart of the Matter“, and drew from John 4:7-24, the story of Lydia at the well, to address the point that Lydia like so many of us changes the subject when talking to someone if we are uncomfortable with the subject matter. We as humans tend to abandon the deeper, more layered subject, and trade it for a shallow and surface subject, such as when Christians are asked about spiritual well being, they tend to change the subject to that of worship. He believes that the subject of worship is used as a diversionary tactic, a vehicle used so that Christians don’t have to, or are not forced to examine thier own lives in Christ. 

Litergy in the Latin means “Service of the people” – worship service.

He went on to define worship by what a theologian had said (I’m sorry, I can’t remember his name )

 

Worship: “True worship is putting your minds attention and heart’s affection on the Lord; praising Him for who He is, and what He has done.”

He then went on to ask the congregation a challenging question: When was the last time you really worshiped the Living God? This question perked my interest, because I thought that going to church was worshiping God. He goes on to say that the action of worship is something ingrained in humanity, that at the very essence of humanity, there is a need to worship something, and he said that was why we fall in love. I thought this was an interesting point! I really loved hearing him speak! It was here that he drew from Colossians 1:16. Then he used a great allegory, the arrow and the target. He made the point that it is impossible to put your arrow in the bullseye of the target if you don’t know what the target is. He then said “Humans pull from the quiver of the soul until it is empty” and that humanity tends to send arrows at false gods and idols because of misdirection of their attention.

He went on to quote Psalms 22:3, “The Lord is enthroned upon the praise of his people…” and he encouraged us to pour out the best of our energies for God, and avoid worshiping false gods. He also cautioned us that True worshipers don’t worry about the how-to, but the who.  He left us with a quote his choir director used to tell him at his old church, “you can sing a lie just as easily as you can tell a lie.”  And he told us that worship is the opportunity for Christians to re-center our lives on God through fellowship and praising His Holy Name.

All in all, it was a very well done sermon, and it truely made me examine what I had been enthroning in my own life, and I am challenging myself this week to work harder for enthroning God in my own life.

In God’s love.

Lucky

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SEC Football!!!

SEC Football Saturday!!!

I know I just posted to my other blog a few minutes ago, but I just got this new app on my iPhone, and I wanted to try it out. Kentucky is beating Georgia right now with 38-35, and Georgia ha third and goal from the twelve. The LSU/ Alabama game just started now too, and I just gotta say, I love SEC football!!!
Tonight at eight, the Gators play Vanderbilt’s Commadores, and if we win this game we’ll be top of the SEC East!
Gergia just scored and it’s 42-38, Georgia with 1:46 in the 4th.

Gator Football!!!

Hey, what’s up guys? Its Lucky!

I know its been a bit, but what ever. Sometimes, I just have the urge to write, you know???

 

I cried when Barack Obama was elected President. I’m not gonna lie. I was so proud, I prayed to God, praising him that I had the priviledge to live to see such a historic day. Every day is a journey, and every day is a test that God puts before us.

Speaking of tests, there is this boy in my Mythology class, and I have been trying to minister to him for the past few weeks. I want some advice, I have some, but I wanted to ask you all what your opinions were.

 

Basically, he’s had some experience with Christianity before, and is now an Agnostic, because he had some issues with the church he went to being super clique-y and judgemental. I want to think of some way to minister to him without being pushy, as he said he hated that Christians were always forcing people into belief. I want to basically be a friend to him, and try to minister to him as Christ would, and explain to him that Christ had a big problem with judgemental people, and that it was the church’s fault for not correcting said issue.

Anyway, tell me what you think, comments are appreciated!!!

 

Love you all, And I seriously can’t wait for the Gators to play Vandy tonight!!!!

 

God Bless!!!

PS. Tell me what you guys want to hear about from me…:)

 

Lucky

Drama (I know its been a while)

Sorry guys, I know I haven’t written in awhile, but here I go. I just need to vent.

Drama

Llama, Osama, Yo mama, Kama(Kama kama Chamelion), Bama, Jamba(Juice).

 

Drama

I hate it. It ruins everything.

I hate when you have this group of friends. They don’t get along, but no one will admit it. Its just not fair, because I always end up being caught in the middle like the filling of an oreo cookie.

I can’t stand it. No one will admit they are wrong. UGHHHH. All the edits I have to make, all the veiws I have to change, its almost not worth it.

I know it will all explode on Halloween night. Oh Joy.

 

 

On the bright side, the day after is the Florida Georgia football game. I know its gonna rock the reservation. haha. Sorry, Inside joke.

 

 

L<3 ve you all.

 

LUCKY13

Meeting the Tebows! The Philippines meeting!

I wrote this letter to my Aunt Carolyn, and thought you all might be interested to read it!

 

Hi Aunt Carolyn!
How have you been? You told me to keep you updated on my Philippines mission trip, and although

 it has not yet begun, I still have something really cool to tell you!

So on Saturday, my mother and I drove up to Jacksonville to see the Tebows for a Philippines meeting

. We drove past their house a few times, it had a balloon on the mailbox, but we kept thinking it

 was the house with the Gators mailbox! So after about the third time of driving by, we saw the

 house number- 920- and pulled into their (mile long, haha) driveway! 

When we got there, Mr. and Mrs. Tebow weren't there yet, but a few of the missionaries were there,

 so we entered their gorgeous farmhouse with a case of water and pretzels, as well as some

 medicine ( the Tebows sent out a request for medication that was expired or that people hadn't

 picked up, and since one of my best friends - Brian DiDea- is the son of my pediatrician, 

I had his father raid their medical cupboard, so we gave them about a bag full of medications!) 

So I settled down with a few of the kids that were going on the trip to seperate the medication

 into baggies. I met a couple of boys, Mitch, who really wants to be a youth pastor is going on 

the three week trip with me, as well as some "Philippines Veterans" In both Travis and Chance 

Spaulding, who have been to the Philippines as well as their (I think they have four) sisters! 

There was also a boy named Ryan, and a girl named Melissa, who loved to sing, so while we 

seperated the medications we say "Beauty and the Beast", just to be cute.   I also met a girl 

named Tiffany Gray, and she is pretty much in charge of keeping track of all of us! I remember 

she called me one day to ask me one question, and we ended up talking for over an hour! But then

 again, does that really surprise you? I think Melissa is her sister, but I can't be sure! 

Well anyway, a few minutes later, Mrs. Tebow is standing right next to me with a box of 

popsicles, going "It's really hot in here! You must be burning up! Would you like a popsicle 

sweetheart?" And I was like "Yes please. Hello, Mrs. Tebow." I was completely in awe, she's 

actually REALLY SHORT! I think we were about the same height, if she wasn't an inch or two 

taller then me! Anyway, I love her so much already! She has this naturally sunny disposition, 

and she always had a smile on her face! Then I met her husband, Mr. Tebow, and he has just about

 the best handshake I have ever experienced! He looked me right in the eyes and I was like 

"Hello, Mr. Tebow, I'm Carry Ducker. " And he says "I'm so glad that you are going with us!" It

 was very exciting!

A little while later, the meeting really started! Mr. Tebow preached through the entire third 

chapter of Romans, and then explained to us how we were to go about sharing the gospel with the

 children. We were supposed to be more into the "God Loves You" message then the "Hellfire and 

Brimstone" speech. As he said, "You can't be angry when you're telling someone that God loves 

them!" I agreed whole heartedly! Then we went around the room and introduced ourselves, and I 

told them that my family has always felt very strongly about going out into the world and 

performing missions work, and I told them how I was named for my Great Aunt Carolyn, who was 

something of a missions pioneer! A few minutes later, he said, "Yes, your .... Big aunt Carolyn?"

 And I was like "Well, my awesome aunt Carolyn!" Everyone laughed really hard at that! There 

were also a couple of people who were valedictorians, and Mrs. Tebow said possibly the funniest

 thing ever! It was "Timmy was Valedictorian of his homeschooled class!" And Mr. Tebow was like

 "Yes, well, he was the ONLY one in his class!" It was pretty funny. 

All in all, it was a good meeting. I got to talk with them a little bit afterwards when Mom came

 to pick me up, and we told him that we were so excited that I was going. I also told Tiffany 

about my fear of flying and invoked that story you told me about the preacher who hated flying 

and said "Jesus said 'Lo, I am with you!' and he said 'How can Jesus be 'low!' with me if I am 

in the air!?" It was pretty funny! As we were leaving, Mr. Tebow was walking out to the shed, 

and I turned to my mom and said "They're letting Timmy out since all the rabid girls are gone" 

And she laughed. 

Mr. Tebow is currently in Cambodia- he left the morning after the meeting! Be sure to keep him 

in your prayers please! I know I have been praying for him!

Anyway, so how are you? I miss you!

The other Carolyn

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