I started blogging about 7 months ago when I started my retirement blog. I have really enjoyed blogging, but want to start recording my daily Christian journey separately. I have just joined a new church and have begun truly studying the Bible daily. I was born and raised in a Baptist Church. My dad was a deacon in his later years. My husband and I were very active in the Church when my sons were in their teens, but have drifted away from weekly fellowship in the past years.
I retired in 2007 and have begun a new phase in my life, and feel that I really have a purpose to fulfill God's plan for my life. I am still looking for that plan--my niche. I have known for several years that I needed to be active in the church--but just which church is that? Since I moved from my home of 39 years about two years ago, I have wanted to find a church home that is close to home. I have found that Church. I started attending services at the Cowboy Church of Dallas County a month ago, and filled out the paperwork to join the church today. The church was established last May, and has just moved to its permanent location. The grand opening will be next Sunday.
I grew up in a small Baptist Church. If we had 300 people on an Easter Sunday, we were breaking records! My father and I were baptized together on Christmas Eve when I was 10 years old. If the church doors opened, we were there. It was a small church with a wonderful preacher. I had the same preacher from the time I was in the third grade until I married. I went back to my home town church many times over the years to hear the Pastor. He preached the sermon at my daddy's funeral, both grandparents, and my brother's funeral. My Pastor counseled with my husband and I before we married. I am looking for the feeling of that small church again. What has prompted me to find a small church are visits to my best friend's church in East Texas. She has such a good little church with wonderful music and very worthwhile programs for the youth. Visiting that little church has really tugged at my heart making me aware that it was time for me to have my own church. I have felt the need to find a church that has that small town atmosphere. My husband really likes the casual atmosphere of the church--He never enjoyed wearing a suit, and the casual dress at Cowboy Church is defiantly a plus for him.
The sermons seem to touch us in a very special way. This is just where God needs us to be! I feel the need to recap these sermons as they seem to really touch my heart. Since I am just formulating my thoughts on how I am going to proceed with this blog, I may do a Sunday evening post with a recap of that day's sermon and then journal a few times a week regarding the study I am working on at that time. My next post will be the recap of today's sermon: "Cinnamon Buns, Chicken Necks, and Hippies".
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