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Hate Our Lives?

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What’s the first thing on your mind in the morning? Chances are it might have something to do with your phone. I just read a study that said the average person now spends more time in the morning checking their phone (email, Facebook, etc.) than they do eating breakfast or taking care of their appearance.

Mary Bielski #ShareJesus blogI want to say to that my first thought every day is God, but often it’s my phone or coffee or something else. Lent is a time for us to ask God to continue to increase our desire for Him.

Ultimate. I love that word. By it’s definition it means there can be only one thing. What’s ultimate in your life? If it’s not Jesus, we are challenged to surrender that one thing to Him so we can make Him our ultimate.

In today’s video, Mary Bielski (@MaryBielski) examines the odd question “Does Jesus want us to hate our lives?” This question leads us examine a little bit closer the meaning of Lent and following Jesus. She challenges us to stir our affections for Him today.

Sharing Online

Quick Social Media Tip for today:

Keep sharing. If you’ve stalled in your efforts to evangelize on or offline, recommit and do it. The good news is worth sharing.

For sharing on Social Media today:

1. How is your Lent going? What do you need to refocus on in Lent? What’s God been saying to you so far?

2. What’s at the heart of Lent?

Sharing Offline

  • Surrender to God anything that you put before Him.
  • ​Ask God for a greater desire for Him, and that you would desire Him above anything else in the world.
  • Practice almsgiving in a real way today. Support someone or a group of people making a difference in your local community.
  • Share with someone at work or a friend about your Lent and how you are trying to experience Jesus.

New life is possible- Lent isn’t over yet. God isn’t done working in your life, but you must let Him.

Glory of the Cross

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Pete Burak #ShareJesus blogHindsight is a funny thing. Often we find ourselves looking back on a situation that we thought was more than we could bear, only to see it was a blessing from God in disguise. When we are in the middle of suffering, it is very hard to see the good that will come out of it, or see how God could be working to bring us through it. Even when we know that suffering can be good for us, we avoid it at all costs. We are drawn to the good and the glory, but shrink away from the suffering we might have to go through to get there.

In today’s video, Pete Burak (@PeteBurak10) talks about how as humans we are drawn to glory, but at first it’s hard to see how the cross, suffering, and death of Jesus would lead to anything glorious. Yet the paradox isn’t too big for our God!!

Sharing Online

Quick Social Media Tip for today:

What do you share? Like? Retweet? These are good questions to consider when formulating your posts when you are attempting to share your faith. Are they written in a way that if you saw them you would consider sharing or liking them?

For sharing on Social Media today:

1. Where is God in your daily trials? How is He reminding you of His presence?

2. Are you more focused on the suffering you are enduring, or on glorifying God in your trouble?

Sharing Offline

  • When listening to someone else’s suffering today, offer them encouragement and point out ways that God might be leading them through this to a greater glory.
  • When people ask how you are, make a point to talk about your blessings first, before talking about your suffering.
  • It is easy to get annoyed with others who seem to complain about their life often. Make a point to pray for these people, and encourage them.

Whatever you face today, God is present. If God’s glory can be seen in the cross, it can be seen in the mess of our lives too.

I Can’t See Jesus

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We’re getting close to the end. The 12th chapter of John’s Gospel comes just before the Last Supper narrative, and we see the contrast between the Greeks who want to see Jesus (John 12:21) and His own people who are blind to His identity (John 12:40).

courtney brown blog #ShareJesusFrom Genesis on, we encounter the stories of people much like us. They desperately wanted to see God, but they were also afraid of being seen by Him. In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus points to the paradox of the cross. He will be glorified when He is made vulnerable on Calvary. Humanity will see the feet of God nailed for our offenses. We will see the back of God beaten for our brokenness, and we will see the face of God disfigured for our sake.

Vulnerability is a terrifying thing. Even with those we love the most, there is always an element of fear in revealing our hearts to another. And yet this is what we are called to as followers of Jesus.

Today, Courtney Brown shares about vulnerability, our desire for it and our fear of it.

Sharing Online

Quick Social Media Tip for today is from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI:
“In social networks, believers show their authenticity by sharing the profound source of their hope and joy: faith in the merciful and loving God revealed in Christ Jesus. This sharing consists not only in the explicit expression of their faith, but also in their witness, in the way in which they communicate “choices, preferences and judgements that are fully consistent with the Gospel, even when it is not spoken of specifically”
For sharing on Social Media today:
1. Who is one person that has shown you unconditional love?

2. When have you experienced the unconditional love of Jesus in the sacrament of Confession or the Eucharist?

The YouTube link to share with your tweets today is https://youtu.be/itiy89LG5VE Don’t forget to use the #ShareJesus.

Taking it Offline

  • Be vulnerable with Jesus in prayer today. Don’t hide your heart from Him.
  • Thank someone today who has loved you faithfully and shown you God’s love.
  • Let someone know that they are appreciated today.

Sometimes we miss seeing God because we are so busy. Don’t be so busy today that you miss what God is saying to you!

Be a Person of Light

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I am a firm believer that whoever had the idea for daylight savings time did not have children or if he/she did, that they regretted that idea. Kids have a hard time adjusting because it breaks them out of their normal routine. They can’t understand in the spring why they have to go to bed because it’s not dark out. Personally, I find it harder to wake up because its so dark now  in the morning.

Bob Lesnefsky #ShareJesus blogMaybe in your life you feel like darkness is surrounding you in different ways. Turn on the news for a little bit and sometimes it can seem like there is so much darkness surrounding the world- war, terrorism, violence, and death. We must remind ourselves that “the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” Be in the light today and be a person of light.

Today I have a request to ask of you. Today’s speaker Bob Lesnefsky (@dirty_vagabond), who happens to be my brother, runs an amazing evangelistic outreach ministry to inner city kids called Dirty Vagabond Ministries. They are doing awesome work loving and discipling at risk youth. One of the hats I wear in my life is helping to bring Dirty Vagabond Ministries to Pittsburgh by coordinating fundraising to get it started. We are at about 65% of the way to a $100,000 initial goal. Lent is a time for almsgiving. If #ShareJesus has made an impact on your Lent or touched your life in someway, would you consider making a $10 donation to help get Dirty Vagabond Ministries started here in Pittsburgh? It will take 2 minutes of your time but changes lives forever. Click here and select Pittsburgh under what this donation is for.

Sharing Online

Are you following us on Facebook? Twitter? Instagram? Pinterest?

Quick Social Media Tip for today is from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI:

“The development of social networks calls for commitment: people are engaged in building relationships and making friends, in looking for answers to their questions and being entertained, but also in finding intellectual stimulation and sharing knowledge and know-how.”

For sharing on Social Media today:

  1. What does it mean to love more? Is there a specific person you need to love more in your life?
  2. Invite people to events coming up at your church.
  3. Invite your friends to like your church’s FB page.

The YouTube link to share with your tweets today is http://youtu.be/5nxxLqg-25A Don’t forget to use the #ShareJesus.

Remember a Facebook Video share from our page is better than a Youtube Link on Facebook.

Sharing Offline

  • Judge less. Love more.
  • Pray with someone today.
  • Invite someone to Mass, prayer group, bible study, youth group, Confession, etc.

Be a person of light today. This starts with being in light in prayer but requires we go out and share that light with others. #ShareJesus today!

Andy

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