Little Footprints

  Westside Family Church Build Your Life Pastor: Randy Frazee Notes:  Fill in the blank: How do we build our lives on a foundation of rock? #1 – We must hear the words of Jesus. So then, faith come by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17 Practicing Christians: More than 2 in 3 (68%) are Scripture Engaged, meaning a smaller minority are disengaged.   Casual Christians: Only 23% qualify as Scripture Engaged, leaving the majority disengaged or in the movable middle.  Nominal Christians: Just 8% qualify as Scripture Engaged, meaning roughly 92% are not actively engaged with the Bible by their metric.  “I believe the Bible is the Word of God that guides my beliefs and actions." “I read the Bible to know God, the truth, and to find direction for my daily life.”  Jesus said, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:4 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and p...

Westside Family Church Disrupting Generational Poverty Pastor Randy Frazee Notes:  What is generational poverty? Generational poverty means a family has been poor for at least two generations, experiencing a self-perpetuating cycle where lack of resources, education, stable jobs, and social support traps them, making it incredibly difficult to improve their economic status due to systemic barriers, psychological stress, and limited opportunities, not just individual failings. Notes:  Fill in the blank: In the Old Testament, God provides a solution to generational poverty. (Leviticus 25) God establishes the Year of Jubilee to provide relief from the chains of poverty. Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years. Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim li...

 Today, I started on my path with "The Story".  I am documenting my progress as this is the first time I will be going through this.  I believe this will be as closest as I come to actually reading the whole Bible! Understand The Story Several verses begin simply with "God said".  In what ways does this impact your view of God and His authority?   It does have an impact on my view---because I have read these words so many times when trying to read the Bible.  What I have taken from when "God said" is nothing ever questioned the validity of God.  It merely was and all was Good until he created Man "in his own image".  After everything He created, He even said "...it was very Good." Knowing that everything was only "Good" until he created man in his own image meant that "we" are loved by our creator first and foremost.  He merely saved the best for last! I often wonder, what would happen if he created us on that first...