Thursday, November 9
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We have a logo...Woo Hoo!'Congrats' to Todd Carver from Arlington, Texas and Envisionary Images, www.envisionaryimages.com, winner of the $500 prize...Also, 'thank you' to all those who submitted over 70 options from which to choose...
You may or may not remember the 'why' behind the name Crossings...
From the book of Genesis...chapter 32...We believe that Jacob's crossing of the River Jabbok is a crossing that everyone must make in their journey toward faith. That place where we come face to face with God, where we wrestle all night long to figure out if this faith is our own, and where, even though sometimes we walk away with a limp, we always walk away changed.
22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak."
But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
27 The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered. 28 Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."
30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared."
May Crossings be a place where people feel safe to come and wrestle with faith in God...Where we all cross the River Jabbok and enter into the story of God relentlessly pursuing us and the saving grace of Jesus.
Mark Nelson at 12:52 PM 0comments