Wayne’s Random Thoughts…Monthly Round Up (April 2009)

This blog is growing almost every day.  With that in mind, I thought it might make sense to do a monthly recap of the prior month’s posts in case new readers may have missed something.  My goal is to get this out in the first week of each month.  I barely made it this month.  Rather than a sequential listing of the posts for the month, I thought this would be more useful if I grouped things by category.  So, here are the posts to Wayne’s Random Thoughts for the month of April 2009:

Shepherding A Child’s Heart Synopsis

• Introduction – Shepherding A Child’s Heart (A Synopsis) [04/09/2009]
• Ch. 1 – Getting to the Heart of Behavior – Shepherding A Child’s Heart (A Synopsis) [04/12/2009]
• Ch. 2 – Your Child’s Development: Shaping Influences – Shepherding A Child’s Heart (A Synopsis) [04/12/2009]
• Ch. 3 – Your Child’s Development: Godward Orientation – Shepherding A Child’s Heart (A Synopsis) [04/16/2009]
• Ch. 4: You’re In Charge – Shepherding A Child’s Heart (A Synopsis) [04/19/2009]
• Ch. 5: Examining Your Goals – Shepherding A Child’s Heart (A Synopsis) [04/23/2009]
• Ch. 6: Reworking Your Goals – Shepherding A Child’s Heart (A Synopsis) [04/26/2009]
• Ch. 7 – Discarding Unbiblical Methods – Shepherding A Child’s Heart (A Synopsis) [04/30/2009]

Monday Morning Prophecy

• Monday Morning Prophecy #1 – Jesus would be betrayed by a friend [04/20/2009]
• Monday Morning Prophecy #2 – The Price of Betrayal [04/27/2009]

Blog Patrol

• The Blog Patrol (April 7, 2009) [04/07/2009]
• The Blog Patrol (April 14, 2009) [04/14/2009]
• The Blog Patrol (April 21, 2009) [04/21/2009]
• The Blog Patrol (April 28, 2009) [04/28/2009]

Bible Study / Theology / Etc.

• Who Is God? [04/13/2009]
• 25 NOT SO Random Things About Me [04/16/2009]
• The End is Coming!!! [04/23/2009]
• 50 Word Gospel [04/24/2009]
• In the Beginning…God! [04/29/2009]

Children’s Ministry

• The Scary Prospect of Working with Children [04/10/2009]

My Kids

• My Favorite Palm Sunday Story [04/05/2009]
• From the mouth of babes… [04/09/2009]

Just for Fun

• 87% Not Ready for Apocalypse (Pew Research Forum) [04/01/2009]
• The Ballad of Matthew’s Begats [04/08/2009]
• Moses is Departing Egypt: A Facebook Haggadah [04/11/2009]
• Esther and Freddie Mercury (aka Purim Will Rock You!) [04/27/2009]

Other Sites

• Devotional Christian [04/14/2009]
• My Christian Blogs [04/23/2009]

Misc.

• Wayne’s Random Thoughts is moving! [04/21/2009]

25 NOT SO Random Things About Me

For the past several months, one of the more popular activities on facebook has been filling out and posting “25 Random Things About Me.”  It’s become a bit of a phenomenon with articles about it in Time magazine and all over.  I admit to, not only posting “25 Random Things About Me,” but also enjoying reading them and finding out more about my friend.  Now, several months later, It occurred to me that there are vastly more important things about me which I did not include in my original list.  So, without further ado, here are 25 NOT SO Random Things About Me:

1. I am a child of God. (John 1:12)
2. I am steeped in sin and have been since birth. (Psalm 51:5)
3. I am chosen. (Ephesians 1:3-6)
4. I am born again. (1 Peter 1:23)
5. I am freed from the bondage of sin.(Romans 6:6, Romans 8:2)
6. I am a new creation. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
7. I am God’s workmanship. (Ephesians 2:10)
8. I am free from condemnation. (Romans 8:1)
9. I am redeemed and forgiven. (Colossians 1:14)
10. I am a work in progress. (Philippians 1:6)
11. I am in Christ and Christ in me. (John 17:20, Galatians 2:20)
12. I am a friend of Christ. (John 15:15)
13. I am a co-worker of God. (2 Corinthians 6:1)
14. I am a co-heir with Christ to the Kingdom of God. (Romans 8:17)
15. I am more than a conqueror. (Romans 8:37)
    
16. I am the light of the world. (Matthew 5:14)
17. I am a priest. (1 Peter 2:9)
18. I am a citizen of heaven. (Philippians 3:20)
19. I am an ambassador of Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:20)
20. I am the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
21. I am in possession of the truth. (1 John 5:20)
22. I belong to God. (1 Corinthians 6:20)
23. I am able to do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13)
24. I am complete in Christ. (Colossians 2:10)
25. I am loved by God. (Romans 8:38)

…and, since I was having so much fun, here’s another set of 25 NOT SO Random Things about me…