Small group celebrations...

We LOVE our small group! Monday was Amanda's birthday, so we surprised her on Wednesday with a cake and other goodies. Albert brought his faorite drink to share - IBC Rootbeer and Nathan brought Krispy Kreme donuts. We didn't think to take a picture of the cake with the candles in it. Oh well! :)

We've been discussing Pastor Coty's sermons from Sunday at our small group. He just finished going through a sermon series on The Tragedy of Weak Desires. He spent five weeks on five different topics: money, sex, success, entertainment and family. I missed two of the sermons due to being in the nursery, but was very glad we were discussing them in our small group. This has been a good sermon series for me to hear. It was all about desiring other things more than God. I will admit that honestly this sermon series was very convicting. I tend to desire almost all of those things more than I desire God. I spend more time thinking about those things than I do spiritual things. My joy must first come from God. "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." (Psalm 37:4) I KNOW this verse, but do I live it? No, not most of the time. Lord, I pray you will change my heart of stone to a heart of flesh. Give me the desire to follow hard after you. Teach me to love you above everything else, even my husband and my daughter. Show me the joy that only you can give. Father, I pray this in your son Jesus Christ's name. Amen.