Sermon Cloud

Back in January we began a journey...some of us that journey was filming through cold, misty, rainy Radnor Lake - on to the ethereal looking Castle in Franklin...

We began a journey with open hearts and a desire to hear, to live, to believe Kingdom Dreams.  We all want to be a people on the way somewhere...we all feel as if we are going somewhere...Where are we going?  How are we going to get there? 
 

Two Different Paths for a Journey - even including "God" - Two Views around these parts about living for God 

1. I have what I want to do in my life - I want God to be a part of that if he would like and make me happy and bless me on my way.
2. God is my God - I want his ways, his Kingdom his Dreams are my life.   All other things are supportive and helpful to His Kingdom purposes.

His Kingdom is one of new desires, new hopes, new vision, and new dreams.   

John Piper, in teaching message series on Ruth says this:

One of the lessons I learn from Ruth chapter three is that hope helps us dream. Hope helps us think up ways to do good. Hope helps us pursue our ventures with virtue and integrity. It's hopelessness that makes people think they have to lie and steal and seize illicit pleasures for the moment. But hope, based on the confidence that a sovereign God is for us, gives us a thrilling impulse which I call strategic righteousness.

John Piper, Ruth 3 - Strategic Righteiousness, available at http://www.desiringgod.org/library/sermons/84/071584.html

We want to intentionally live with hope and Kingdom dreams.