Lukewarm and Loving It!

by Cindy Bultema | Apr 11, 2011 | Uncategorized | 4 comments

We are home from vacation! For a quick Spring Break recap, click here.

Hey Friends! Happy Monday to you!

As many of you know, one of the highlights of my week is our “Magnificent Monday Bible Study” Bible Study. I love this amazing group of beautiful women ~ and it’s fun to watch God show up each and every week!

We are in the middle of a season called “Red Hot for Jesus ~ Lukewarm is NOT the Norm!” (continuing teachings from the Red Hot retreat).

Unfortunately, due to Spring Break, we will not be meeting tonight. 🙁

My encouragement to my MM sisters is to watch Francis Chan’s powerful teaching called “Lukewarm and Loving It!”

I appreciate Francis’ authentic, vulnerable teaching from God’s Word.

I decided to post it on *She Sparkles*…maybe you would like to watch it too! 🙂 (Nearly 200,000 viewers have watched it now!)

May God impress these Truths onto our hearts so that we, too, would be disgusted with Lukewarm living, and pursue Red Hot, power-filled, useful lives in Christ!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X82kjL1hDYU]

If you’ve read “Crazy Love” (and the profile of Lukewarm Living), or have a chance to view Francis’ teaching, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

What do you think are the biggest challenges to believers living “lukewarm”? How would you counsel a friend living “lukewarm” who wants to live free?

I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks for stopping by *She Sparkles*! Have a glorious, joy-filled, Red Hot week!

Sweet blessings to you~

4 Comments

MOMSWEB on April 11, 2011 at 6:59 pm

Good grief… I picked the WRONG day to drop by. Actually, the timing was God's timing and I was definitely supposed to view this video today. Bless you for blessing me. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus! Thank God for Jesus!
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Deirdra Eden-Coppel on April 11, 2011 at 8:14 pm

I love your site and as I browsed your blog I decided to award you the Inspiring Blog Award.Go to http://astorybookworld.blogspot.com/p/awards.html and pick up your award.~Deirdra
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Sarah Allen on April 12, 2011 at 2:57 am

This is great! Thank you for sharing 🙂Sarah Allen(my creative writing blog)
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Leah @ Point Ministries on April 12, 2011 at 7:51 am

Oh yes, I've read Crazy Love. Huge conviction to my heart! I am way more lukewarm than I cared to admit. I also read Radical and unChristian not too long afer Crazy Love and oh my goodness, my world has been rocked. I will never be the same after reading these three books. What a huge faith challenge.
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