Comments for Rick Grover's Weblog http://rickgrover.wordpress.com personal reflections on our journey at owensboro Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:53:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on About Me by rickgrover http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/about/#comment-171 rickgrover Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:53:50 +0000 #comment-171 Great to hear from you! I pray all is well! Great to hear from you! I pray all is well!

]]> Comment on About Me by Alicia and Patrick Williams http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/about/#comment-170 Alicia and Patrick Williams Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:40:45 +0000 #comment-170 Well hush my mouth and call me Susan...we found you! Rick...how are you doing? Man, we really miss you. The kids always ask about you and want to see you again. They are getting old now. Annalise is three, Angelene is five, Ronald is seven and Jeremy is 16. You are a mighty man of God and he used and still uses you to bring families together and faith in Christ. Man, we have really grown-up in the Lord and we have to just thank you for being a servant of Jesus and giving people a true view of God by just being yourself. We send blessings to you and your family and just pray that you continue touching the lives of so many who need Jesus and even those who think they don't. We pray these things for you and ask Jesus to guide your family and protect you and them from the darkness of the world. My family prays the lord continues to make you a mighty man of God, a caring father and boulder planted within the mountain of Gods word! We pray this in Jesus name...Amen....... Patrick, Alicia, Anna, Angelene, Ronald and Jeremy. Well hush my mouth and call me Susan…we found you! Rick…how are you doing? Man, we really miss you. The kids always ask about you and want to see you again. They are getting old now. Annalise is three, Angelene is five, Ronald is seven and Jeremy is 16. You are a mighty man of God and he used and still uses you to bring families together and faith in Christ. Man, we have really grown-up in the Lord and we have to just thank you for being a servant of Jesus and giving people a true view of God by just being yourself. We send blessings to you and your family and just pray that you continue touching the lives of so many who need Jesus and even those who think they don’t. We pray these things for you and ask Jesus to guide your family and protect you and them from the darkness of the world. My family prays the lord continues to make you a mighty man of God, a caring father and boulder planted within the mountain of Gods word! We pray this in Jesus name…Amen…….

Patrick, Alicia, Anna, Angelene, Ronald and Jeremy.

]]> Comment on About Me by Bob Kuhn http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/about/#comment-169 Bob Kuhn Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:39:55 +0000 #comment-169 Hey Rick, Hope ya'll are doin' well. I thought of you and our talks over coffee when I saw that Alan Hirsch is getting into a "both/and" approach to missions. Have you ever heard of such a thing? :) Here's a link he posted on facebook: http://www.envisaging.org/2009/09/and-pursuing-incarnational-and-attractional/ You may want to contact him. It seems like your kinda thing. Peace, Bob Hey Rick,

Hope ya’ll are doin’ well. I thought of you and our talks over coffee when I saw that Alan Hirsch is getting into a “both/and” approach to missions. Have you ever heard of such a thing? :) Here’s a link he posted on facebook:

http://www.envisaging.org/2009/09/and-pursuing-incarnational-and-attractional/

You may want to contact him. It seems like your kinda thing.

Peace,

Bob

]]> Comment on About Me by Rusty Wilson http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/about/#comment-163 Rusty Wilson Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:21:50 +0000 #comment-163 Hey Rick, We are planning on coming and seeing you guys on June 28th. We are camping at John James Audubon State Park on our way back from Holiday World. Maybe we could have lunch after church. See you at the 11:00 service. We hope everything is going great! Rusty, Melissa, Zachery, Caleb & Adrianna Hey Rick,

We are planning on coming and seeing you guys on June 28th. We are camping at John James Audubon State Park on our way back from Holiday World. Maybe we could have lunch after church. See you at the 11:00 service. We hope everything is going great!

Rusty, Melissa, Zachery, Caleb & Adrianna

]]> Comment on Vantage Points by Lori Cecil http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/vantage-points/#comment-158 Lori Cecil Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:22:52 +0000 http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/?p=192#comment-158 Thought you might like this quote if you haven't already heard it. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again." --Jerry Lewis Thought you might like this quote if you haven’t already heard it. “I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.” –Jerry Lewis

]]> Comment on Vantage Points by Jason Aldridge http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/vantage-points/#comment-147 Jason Aldridge Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:45:37 +0000 http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/?p=192#comment-147 Rick- very well put. We ALL need to have that understanding of "poor in spirit." Even as the world knocks at our door and the enemy stands on the other side waiting for us to invite him in, we have to remember the "humble pie" on the table set before us and know that He is a healer and restorer and that the enemy is nothing but a destroyer! I strive everyday to get the "vantage point" of Jesus and know that it's the only way to have peace in my heart and servitude as my mantra. I have thouroughly enjoyed your presence at OCC and look forward to a long tenure of God's word through you. Bless you friend. Rick- very well put. We ALL need to have that understanding of “poor in spirit.” Even as the world knocks at our door and the enemy stands on the other side waiting for us to invite him in, we have to remember the “humble pie” on the table set before us and know that He is a healer and restorer and that the enemy is nothing but a destroyer! I strive everyday to get the “vantage point” of Jesus and know that it’s the only way to have peace in my heart and servitude as my mantra. I have thouroughly enjoyed your presence at OCC and look forward to a long tenure of God’s word through you. Bless you friend.

]]> Comment on About Me by Lesley Blake http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/about/#comment-144 Lesley Blake Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:55:30 +0000 #comment-144 Hey Rick, I hope you & your family have enjoyied OCC so far. Enjoy hearing your sermons & what God has to teach us all Your family is so sweet. :) Hey Rick,
I hope you & your family have enjoyied OCC so far. Enjoy hearing your sermons & what God has to teach us all Your family is so sweet. :)

]]> Comment on Vantage Points by Marla http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/vantage-points/#comment-143 Marla Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:17:44 +0000 http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/?p=192#comment-143 I would also add that as Jesus so often did, He was quite directly addressing the religious leaders of the day. They relied on their religion to save them, on their own piety and goodness. They certainly felt good about themselves and their standing with God and the world. Jesus is telling them that we can never be good enough on our own, and that we are to completely empty ourselves of pride, self-righteousness, and religion. We do no receive the gifts of God based on our merit. We are really all poor in spirit because we are utterly depraved, apart from God, but we have to recognize that and then allow our spirits to be reigned by Christ. Wherever He reigns, therein lies His kingdom. When we're poor in spirit and we're reigned by Him, we are living in an earthly kingdom of heaven. I would also add that as Jesus so often did, He was quite directly addressing the religious leaders of the day. They relied on their religion to save them, on their own piety and goodness. They certainly felt good about themselves and their standing with God and the world. Jesus is telling them that we can never be good enough on our own, and that we are to completely empty ourselves of pride, self-righteousness, and religion. We do no receive the gifts of God based on our merit. We are really all poor in spirit because we are utterly depraved, apart from God, but we have to recognize that and then allow our spirits to be reigned by Christ. Wherever He reigns, therein lies His kingdom. When we’re poor in spirit and we’re reigned by Him, we are living in an earthly kingdom of heaven.

]]> Comment on Vantage Points by Cindy Lyons http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/vantage-points/#comment-142 Cindy Lyons Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:13:05 +0000 http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/?p=192#comment-142 Yes, that helps. Thank you. Yes, that helps. Thank you.

]]> Comment on Vantage Points by rickgrover http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/vantage-points/#comment-141 rickgrover Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:34:37 +0000 http://rickgrover.wordpress.com/?p=192#comment-141 My understanding is that "poor in spirit" is not in reference to material poverty which is indicated in Luke 6:20. The phrase describes those who humbly trust God even if there is a lack of resources which contrasts the "wicked" who set themselves up against God through arrogance and place their dependence on their resources. To be poor in spirit means we possess a humble and "unworldly" attitude and trust only in God. We are "empty before God" (Karl Barth), and that poverty or emptiness becomes a mark of discipleship. The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these. I hope this helps! Rick My understanding is that “poor in spirit” is not in reference to material poverty which is indicated in Luke 6:20. The phrase describes those who humbly trust God even if there is a lack of resources which contrasts the “wicked” who set themselves up against God through arrogance and place their dependence on their resources. To be poor in spirit means we possess a humble and “unworldly” attitude and trust only in God. We are “empty before God” (Karl Barth), and that poverty or emptiness becomes a mark of discipleship. The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.

I hope this helps!

Rick

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