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Thankful Thursday ~ Different Perspective

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
(Colossians 3:16 ESV)

Over the past 1 1/2 years my home congregation has been without a senior pastor. I love my church and I am looking forward to whoever God has in mind for us. This past week, our congregation extended a call to a young pastor from Colorado. I am nosy, so I checked out a couple of his sermons that are available online. Well, as for me, I like him and I know he would be a great addition to our church body. But then again, God’s will be done.

I am very calm about all this; my calmness actually sort of scares me. I am usually really hyper when it comes to church. Believe me, these past months have been a little nerve wrecking, but I did not want to change churches. You know why? Because I love the people that make up our church body, we have wonderful ministry leaders, and the Word of God is taught. What else do I need? Well, okay, a senior pastor would be great. But everything in God’s timing.

You see, God’s Word is important in my life (and I hope in yours as well). I have several different Bible translations in my home and I am very thankful for that. You may wonder why I have the different Bible translations. Well, sometimes I like to get a different perspective. Two of my home Bibles are actually in my mother-tongue, German. And my favorite of the two German Bibles is the “Basis Bibel” (yes it is “Bibel” in German :)). Unfortunately this translation has currently only the New Testament and Psalms. Hopefully soon, the Basis Bibel has all of God’s Word.

So, this week I am thankful for God’s Word in different translations to see His Word from a different perspective. What are you thankful for this week? Please do share with us by leaving a link to your Thankful Thursday post below.

Thank you for stopping by this week. Remember: it is not a bad thing to read His Word in different translations; it is important that we do read and apply it.

Love & peace,
Iris

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