Tuesday, January 23, 2018

“KEEP IT UP"-Rev. M.D. Rogers




Psalm 121

It is important that as we enter into a new season and function at another level in God that we maintain our course and maintain specific aspects of our lives.

Often times when we are in transition the process and stress of processing in our minds the multi-directional changes that are taking place have the tendency to wear us down, and wear us out.

The multi-directional activity that is going on in the spirit realm has a multi-directional impact on our minds, our bodies, and our resources.
Our mental faculties get drained, trying to decipher what God is doing.
Our bodies get tired going here and there trying to get clarity from God and trying to figure out what is God doing.
The elements and the conditions suggest that God is not in the midst of what you are dealing with. But God is all over it, even when you can’t trace him.

We have to learn to trust God even when we can’t trace God!

We have to train ourselves that even in the midst of adversity and situations that weigh us down, we have to keep our heads up.

Point 1- Keep your Head Up – The bible lets us know, that we can look to the hills from whence cometh our help, and our help comes from the Lord (Psalm 121)

Point 2- Keep Your Expectancy Up- Even when the enemy seems to be winning the fight, you have to expect to win the victory.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11

Point 3- Keep Your Praise High!-
We must control your environment with a praise. When the enemy invades your space and invades your resources, break up the atmosphere with a praise. We have to be like David, and make up in our minds, I will bless the Lord at all times, and his praise shall continually be in my mouth. (Psalm 34)

Nashville Colleges Accreditation Reaffirmed for 10 Years - The Tennessee Tribune

Nashville Colleges Accreditation Reaffirmed for 10 Years - The Tennessee Tribune

With Kentucky School Shooting, Fears of Growing ‘Numb’ to a Once-Rare Horror - The New York Times



On Tuesday, it was a high school in small-town Kentucky. On Monday, a school cafeteria outside Dallas and a charter school parking lot in New Orleans. Earlier this month, a school bus in Iowa, a college campus in Southern California, a high school in Seattle.
Gunfire ringing out in American schools used to be rare, and shocking. Now it seems to happen all the time.


With Kentucky School Shooting, Fears of Growing ‘Numb’ to a Once-Rare Horror - The New York Times

Friday, January 5, 2018

Man and Nature: Art in the Age of Climate Change - StumbleUpon

Man and Nature: Art in the Age of Climate Change - StumbleUpon

The Gift of Listening.. By Rev.M.D.Rogers


When was the last time you truly listened to someone?
I’m not talking about the listening that you do as you jot down your shopping list, or the listening that you do while you prepare what you are going to say in response. Rather I’m speaking about the experience of listening to someone without any distractions or any impatience. Listening with the express purpose of bearing witness to their story. 
Can you remember how you felt the last time you really listened? Can you remember how you felt the last time someone really listened to you? 
There is something about being heard that fulfills a deep-seated human need for connection. And it seems to go both ways: the experience of telling someone vivid stories about our life changes us, and it changes the perspective of the person listening.  
When I set off to do a paper on “Why We Can’t Wait” by Dr. King,  I did a huge amount of research into the oral history tradition. In particular, I became somewhat obsessed with the work Dr. King and with the man himself. In all his books, and his interviews, I got the sense that he loved people,  That he listened to them with genuine interest and fascination. Somehow his very presence allowed people to open a floodgate within themselves, and it allowed him to write books that became portraits of the human condition.  
Dr. King witnessed stories that too often remained unspoken, or overlooked. He spoke to people who I imagine saw their lives as too mundane or unmemorable to be of interest to the outside world, and he unearthed a vivid, captivating wealth of stories within each of them. 
Seeing as we are in the season of gift-giving, can you think of someone in your life who you can give the gift of listening? We all lead extraordinary human lives, we all have stories that are waiting to be told.