Jesus Calling

So if we can't confess together, the question has to be, how can we commune together? But I want to go back to that hymn question for a second, because I want to highlight just one of our hymns and our hymnal on the Lord's Supper, because I think this helps make our point.

This is Lutheran service book 629.

What is this bread? So the first verse asks what the bread is, and it answers that it's Christ's body.

And the second verse asks, what is this wine? And it answers that it's Christ's blood.

They got their one bad decision at a time.

So they got there as a result of a thousand bad decisions.

So, for example, a good look at the book of Proverbs would really help to lay this out.

Study what Lady Wisdom says in the first several chapters of the book of Proverbs.

Again, it was entitled God Calling.

What other book do you know of that has a title that sounds like that? Jesus Calling, right? Jesus Calling by Sarah Young.

And it used to be, if you find a copy of Jesus Calling today, like if you go to Walmart or your local grocery store, which probably carries the book, it's one of the most... published most sold Christian books outside of the Bible in modern history.

So if you go pick up a copy of Jesus Calling today and you read the introduction, you read the introduction from Sarah Young, she doesn't tell you in the introduction how she wrote the book.

But it used to be in the early editions of Jesus Calling that she did say exactly how she wrote the book.

She recalled her process exactly like these women did and exactly like Russell did.

She would sit there, emptying her mind, Pencil and paper in hand, and she would write down whatever thoughts came to her mind, and whatever thoughts came to her mind ended up being the book Jesus Calling.

That's exactly the way she wrote it.

Just being Christians in the hockey world, it's also just the daily commitment to living out that saying of, hey, we love Jesus, and that's first and foremost, but we also, God has given us the ability to play hockey, and so we want to play hockey and use it for His glory.

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This week we hear from hockey-playing brothers Jacob and Josiah Slavin.

Jacob, a veteran defenseman for the Carolina Hurricanes, Josiah, now playing for the Chicago Wolves in the same organization.

life.

He set that example for us of what it looks like to still actively have a relationship with God while also trying to manage a busy life.

Jesus Calling.

Our mom, I think, had the devotional growing up, and so we saw her reading it.

So if you have friends or you're promoting that, just say, they took some artistic license and they're trying to create a story of what it was probably like in Jesus' time and it could be helpful for this and that.

Another one is Jesus Calling Books.

So books like that where people put words in Jesus' mouth, There's no chapter or verse.

It can be helpful.

I know.

I would also say, too, an oldie but a goodie is Jesus Calling.

That sits on our kitchen table.

And it's like one of the ways I feel like God has spoken to myself and our family in our time of need is like every flipping day.

But he also, and he has the Center for Contemplative Christianity, which is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I think.

But they have a great daily devotional too.

So if you want just like little snippets, almost like your Jesus calling in your inbox every morning, that's usually how I start my day.

That and I have the Jesus calling one that comes and I sit with my coffee every morning and Just have a moment.

I think you learn and you grow together.

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This week we hear from best-selling author Francine Rivers, who has been married to her husband Rick for 56 years.

She shares how a home Bible study helped carry them from the edge of divorce, what caring for Rick, a Vietnam Marine with Parkinson's, looks like now, and why she sees death as a beginning.

We have a German shepherd and he wakes up early, so I take him out.

And that gives me probably two hours before I start getting ready and get Rick up.

And that time is my dedicated time to the Lord when I'm reading things like Jesus Calling and then the scriptures to go and look up.

And I'm in the Word every morning.

The best way would be my website, which is simply janhemby.com.

I also have my, of course, email, which is jshemby at gmail.com. And if you have a Facebook account, I have a Facebook author page where I do post blogs.

And so it's just as simple as typing in Jan Hemby author.

And you can read some of my blogs and keep up with where if I'm speaking or at a book club or, you know, just my schedule.

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So how does surrender help us find peace in this grief as we think about a future, as we, like David, understand that our loved one is not coming back or that loss is not changing? How do we find peace in that? Sarah Young writes in a devotional book I love called Jesus Calling, she says this about the future.

She says, your future looks uncertain and feels flimsy, even precarious.

That is how it should be.

Uh, Sarah Young loved prison ministry, and she loved those in prison.

And Jesus Calling came from that heart.

So to be recognized by Jesus Calling means so much to us and, um, it's, it's who we are.

We have a heart for those in prison.

And, uh, Sarah Young, her legacy, uh, gets to live on inside of prisons.

We have a, an app called the Pando app for those in prison, and, uh, Jesus Calling is the number one app used inside of prisons.

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Yeah, the number one book.

You can only focus on 10 seconds at a time.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast.

This week, we hear from TV host and podcaster Kelly Rizzo, who shares about the sudden loss of her husband, comedian Bob Saget, and how she views grief and coping in the aftermath of losing a partner.

Next, we'll hear from Dominique Jones, also known as DoE.

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I was in so much emotional pain after that.

I was like, "I don't know what to do." And I don't know if one of my best friends recommended the book, or maybe my sister recommended the book, or I just found Jesus Calling on my own.

I don't totally remember, but for whatever reason, in the very beginning, I was like, "This is exactly what I needed to hear today." Just little bits of information.