Mike Tremblay's Weblog

Here's the last MMB for July 2014! You can't control the weather ...       ... but you can control the temperature of your soul! You can't control life circumstances ...       ... but you can control your spiritual reactions! Followers of Jesus have CONTROL ISSUES! If they are NOT under the Spirit's Control ... Thunderstorms break out! Hurricanes Form Lightening strikes causing fire pockets wind and hail stir up and causing frightful damage Even though you can't control the outside weather -- you most certainly can control (under the Holy Spirit's power) the SPIRITUAL weather of your life! SUNNY DAYS => under the Spirit's Control - you bear Fruit ! Gal 5:22-23 WARM CALM NIGHTS => under the Spirit's Control - you have Mind Renewal ! Phil 4:4-8 BREEZY AFTERNOONS =>  under the Spirit's Control ... you have Victory ! Rom 8:5ff STIRRING MORNING SUNRISE =>  under the Spirit's Control ... you ...

I missed MMB this week. I admit I am a bit out of sorts due to becoming very tired. But tiredness is no excuse for RESTFULNESS IN JESUS. I am reminded of that Psalm passage, "Be still and know that I am God". Often I hear my best friend and wife of my youth playing a YouTube version of this hymn. It inspires me and motivates me to take my moment of rest by being still in His presence. Amazingly, I am revitalized. I am renewed. I am ready. So even though a day late, the blog is here! We were treated to an interesting Sunday with our yearly trip to the Beach being postponed but some still being there and some being at AGF! I am just glad our God is everywhere present. He is where you are! So please remember, dear reader, you can rest in Him at any time because his open arms are always there. At BHFs (VBS Big Heart Farms) we reviewed the Fruit of the Spirit, and this past Sunday morning we looked again briefly at what character God's Spirit motivates in us as His Fr...

FREE OF RELIGIOUS RITUALISM - Galatians 5:2-4 Paul speaks of the shackles of the "Law" when he refers to the Jewish Religious Ritual (and Requirement ... before Christ came) of circumcision. He does so to compare the Law with Grace. Essentially the Law was a bondage ... a burden; because no one could keep it acceptably. One could try but any failure caused the whole thing to be labeled "FAILURE".  God provided freedom from the bounds of the law in Jesus Christ (who, by the way, is the only one who kept the Law perfectly, being impeccable Himself - without sin). Freedom in Christ Jesus erases all facets of bondage included religiousness! The words Paul wrote, he wrote from the Holy Spirit who used Paul's own experience as a Hebrew and Jewish Leader. See what he says in verses 2-4.  (NIV)  2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himse...

Galatians 5:1b (NIV) "Stand firm, then and do not let yourselves be burdened again" Freedom, this past 4th of July weekend, was on people's minds while they celebrated Independence Day. Family, Friends, Fireworks and Freedom mark this annual event in our country. Unfortunately, there are many celebrating freedom who are caught up in bondage and don't even realize it. That's the intent of our series "FREE" at Amazing Grace Fellowship in Bristol, NH. Seeing Freedom as Jesus Christ intended Real Freedom to be viewed. Jesus gives Freedom Assurance because He is the Bondage Breaker! He IS Freedom; He OFFERS Freedom and He PROVIDES Freedom! All this is God's design for mankind who is under the bondage and shackles of condemning sin. Being set free and remaining set free is God's Goal for us! Paul's words in Galatians 5 are striking. When he says "don't let yourselves be burdened again", it implies you've already bee...