digital kisses

I just kissed my wife good morning on Skype.  It’s really not the same.  I miss you honey!

Together we will,

Marcus Bigelow

President | Stadia: Together We Will…

333 Sunset Dr.  Rocklin, CA 95765 | 707-718-3730 cell
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If Jesus comes

While I doubt seriously that Harold Camping is right about May 21 being the day Jesus will come (he's been wrong before), every time someone predicts Jesus coming I am forced to say, "He could be right", not because of their own ability to forsee the future,but because Jesus could come at any time.

Here is my prayer for every single person I know (and more abstractly for those I don't know),

1) I pray that you know Jesus as your friend, Savior and Lord. There is no way under heaven by which you can share eternity with God without knowing Jesus personally.

It's really pretty simple.

First, you must believe that Jesus is the God's solution for our lives and throw yourself on God's grace. I know I'm not good enough in myself to ever earn God's favor-- and in your heart of hearts you probably agree with that. (About yourself--if you know me I know you agree about me!)

Second, tell someone that you believe. It doesn't have to be a preacher or in church, just acknowledge to someone that you are going to trust Jesus. When we try to be secret Christians, Satan snatches it away from us by convincing us that our choice to follow Jesus wasn't really real.

Third, agree with God to go his way. Instead of always trying to do things your way, make an about face and agree to do it God's way.

Fourth, be baptized. Being immersed is a spiritual drama wherein we act out the saving event, Christ's death, burial and resurrection in our life. There is nothing magic about water baptism, but God has said he will meet us there.

So, if Jesus comes today or tomorrow, I pray we will spend eternity together basking in the glow of God's love and lving out an eternity of challenge and fulfillment.

I was going to say, thank you for being my friend. But, if Jesus comes tomorrow, I'll just tell you in heaven. See you there.

Hate

Hate is like a boomerang that misses the target and comes back and hits you in the head.

Louis Zamporini

Together we will

Marc Bigelow
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Good Grief it's raining

Here I sit, looking out the window on May 9, and it’s cold and rainy.  This is California, it’s supposed to be hot.

Marcus Bigelow

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Christmas Evans

Raised in an abusive family, illiterate at age 17, lost his eye in a knife fight while in a drunken brawl, became a preacher of the gospel whom God used to bring thousands to himself.  Wrote these words, “ Consider in the first place the great importance, to a preacher, of a blameless life.”  Such is grace that brings complete forgiveness.  “Remember this,  that you cannot commit some loved sin in private and perform the work of the ministry in public,  with facility and acceptance.”  I am challenged to personal purity in my life.

Together we will,

Marcus Bigelow

President | Stadia: Together We Will…

333 Sunset Dr.  Rocklin, CA 95765 | 707-718-3730 cell
www.stadia.cc

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A great blog

I subscribe to Michael Hyatt’s blog on leadership and communication.  I find at least 3 or more times a week I say Wow!  Today’s blog on Playing Full Out was particularly touching to me.  Here’s the link. http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=52d5c7778a3adfda535c3b349&id=f09b4d9bdd&e=b5fc4a0be3

Together we will,

Marcus Bigelow

President | Stadia: Together We Will…

333 Sunset Dr.  Rocklin, CA 95765 | 707-718-3730 cell
www.stadia.cc

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Charles Simeon

In a conversation with Charles Wesley, Charles Simeon, who leaned towards Calvinism said,  “ . . . Therefore, if you please, instead of searching searching out terms and phrases to be a ground of contention between us, we will cordially unite in those things in which we agree.”  The world is full of meany heads who want to create walls of divisive orthodoxy, so that they can have an exclusive club, but Jesus said in Mark 9:40-41,  “For whoever is not against us is for us. 41 For I tell you the truth, whoever gives you a cup of water because you bear Christ's name will never lose his reward.” (NET)

Together we will,

Marcus Bigelow

President | Stadia: Together We Will…

333 Sunset Dr.  Rocklin, CA 95765 | 707-718-3730 cell
www.stadia.cc

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Charles Simeon

Reading biography of Charles Simeon 1759-1836. The members of the church locked the pews so people couldn’t hear him, locked the doors so sinners couldn’t come in, and he still preached faithfully for 54 years in the same place.  I’m a woos.  “My endeavor” he wrote, “ is to bring out of Scripture what is there and not to trust in what I think may be there.  Take the Word as little children without enquiring what human system it appears to favor.”   “ Be a Bible Christian not a system Christian.”  In a day when we like to create camps of thought, these are great words.  Think I heard Francis Chan say the same thing last week at Exponential.  Some things are timeless.

Together we will,

Marcus Bigelow

President | Stadia: Together We Will…

333 Sunset Dr.  Rocklin, CA 95765 | 707-718-3730 cell
www.stadia.cc

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