Faith Focus - The Blue Church

Pastor Rob Ladonne,

“God is the author of life so it is no surprise that much of life prompts us to think about Him. In the writings below you will find references to every day experiences that have brought my faith into focus. I hope these writings encourage

you to have a deeper faith in God.”

Renewal

Posted on Dec 9, 2017 in Faith Focus |

want to encourage you today to think about renewal. It has been on my mind a lot lately and I believe it to be an important subject. What I am really addressing is daily renewal. This is the type of renewal where we wake up every day knowing that much awaits us and that we are still “carrying” burdens from yesterday and that we need God to renew us.

Involved God

Posted on Dec 2, 2017 in Faith Focus |

^{Emmanuel – God with us. Jesus came to be with his creation. He came to be with us. The incarnation is hard to fathom, even for those who are mature in the faith. For me, there are several verses in the bible that really bring home the significance of Jesus coming to earth. Here are some of them}

¹⁴Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— ¹⁵and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.¹⁶

Thinking through thanks-giving

Posted on Nov 29, 2017 in Faith Focus |

salm 9:1 1I
will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your

wonderful deeds.

With Thanksgiving now in our rearview mirror I have had a little more time
to reflect on giving thanks to God. Perhaps the few thoughts I have shared
below will help you to see that we have so many reasons to express gratitude
to our Creator:

A poor idea

Posted on Nov 23, 2017 in Faith Focus |

Recently I came to understand more about some of the tenants of
reincarnation. One thing that I found particularly interesting was the
concept of how the poor are considered to be “getting what they deserve”
because of the misdeeds they committed in their former life.

Ministers of irreconcilable differences

Posted on Nov 12, 2017 in Faith Focus |

Recently I was considering the story of Jonah. He was a man who clearly
wanted to beat to his own drum. Even in his service to God he seemed
determined to minister to whomever he wanted to minister to and go wherever
he decided he should go. He wasn’t shy about telling God what he thought or
what he was going to say.

Triumph in Christ

Posted on Nov 6, 2017 in Faith Focus |

The beginning of this week was really difficult for me. On the unit where I
work at the prison we have some of the most disruptive inmates in the whole
institution. Earlier this week they had brought their disruptive efforts to
a new level and it was almost impossible to do rounds.

I am alive!

Posted on Oct 29, 2017 in Faith Focus |

I suspect that many of you are familiar with the scene in the movie, “The
Wizard of Oz” when Dorothy and her cowardly companions enter into the
ominous throne-room of “The great and powerful Oz”.

You have no excuse

Posted on Oct 21, 2017 in Faith Focus |

There are several phrases that we usually don’t want to be on the receiving
end of. They are:

* Have I not made myself clear?
* How could you have missed this?
* Do I need to point out the painfully obvious to you?
* You have no excuse

Emoji emotions Inbox x CHURCH x

Posted on Oct 14, 2017 in Faith Focus |

This past week I received an email from one of my co-workers and in it they
questioned if I was doing as much work as others in the department. How is
that for a pleasant email? Then I noticed at the end of their inquiry an
Emoji.

Losing all sensitivity towards God and those He created.

Posted on Oct 8, 2017 in Faith Focus |

If you are like me, you are still trying to make sense of the horrifying
shootings that are happening across the world like the one that happened in
Las Vegas, Nevada this past week. When something like this happens my mind
always wanders towards questions like,