Ordinary People, Extraordinary God
March 21-22, 2009
Speaker: Thora Anderson
- Ordinary
- Ordinary… “usual; regular; habitual; normal; commonplace; plain; Something customary” [Webster’s Dictionary]
- 2 Corinthians 4:18 (NLT) “We don’t look at troubles we can see right now; rather, we look forward to what we have not yet seen. For the trouble we see will soon be over, but the joys to come will last forever.”
- “The gospel of Jesus Christ is ‘the fairy tale too good not to be true.’” Frederick Buechner
- Ordinary people
- Rebecca
- Miriam
- Exodus 2:5-8 (NAS) 5Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her maidens walking alongside the Nile and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her.6When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew’s children.” 7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?” 8And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go ahead.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.
- Exodus 15:20-21(NAS) 20Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing.21Miriam answered them, “Sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted; the horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea.”
- Priscilla
- Rahab
- Abigail
- Mother of Belshazzar, the King of Babylon, in the time of Daniel
- Daniel 5:10-12 (NLT) 10“But when the Queen Mother heard what was happening, she hurried to the banquet hall. She said to Belshazzar, ‘Long live the king! Don’t be so pale and afraid about this. 11There is a man in your kingdom who has within him the spirit of the holy gods...” 12“This man Daniel, whom the King named Belteshazzar, has a sharp mind and is filled with divine knowledge and understanding. He can interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve difficult problems. Call for Daniel, and he will tell you what the writing means.”
- Jael
- Judges 4:18-19, 21(NLT) 18Jael went out to met Sisera and said to him, “Come into my tent, sir. Come in. Don’t be afraid.” So he went into her tent and she covered him with a blanket. 19Please give me some water,” he said. “I’m thirsty.” So she gave him some milk to drink and covered him again. 21“But when Sisera fell asleep from exhaustion, Jael quietly crept up to him wih a hammer and tent peg. Then she drove the tent peg through his temple and into the ground, and so he died.”
- Tami
- Jessica
- Thaila, my sister
- Jody
- Ordinary People (when God’s Kingdom breaks in) change the world!
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