Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!

We hope you all have a great time with family during this holiday season and have a great start to the new year. In Psalm we are reminded to number our days so that we may be careful to spend each day wisely. We pray that God will meet all of your needs and give you good health.

"Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
-Psalm 90:12

"Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ."

Tim and Tara Chamberlain
-For the sake of the Gospel

Merry Christmas!

Tara and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope you get some great time with family.
We'll be traveling quite a bit over the winter break and would appreciate your prayers.
Thank you for partnering with us in this ministry through prayers and financial support.
We couldn't be here without you.
Merry Christmas!

Tim and Tara Chamberlain
-For the sake of the Gospel

The Greatest Inheritance of All Time

In light of the economic hard times, it's refreshing to know that those who have put their hope and trust in Christ have an amazing inheritance that can never depreciate or lose value. (Unlike the stock market)

"So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the basic principles of the world. But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba Father." So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir."

Can you believe that God, the one and only God of the universe who created all things, would do this for you and me? That we could be heirs to God?! You can't get much higher up than that.

David said in Psalm 8:4-5

"what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor"

The sad thing is that are many people around you and me that believe the lie that can get their way into Heaven. As long as they are good enough or give enough money or whatever the good work is.

Ephesians 2:8-9 says "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast."

2 Corinthians 10:7 says "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord"

Tim and Tara Chamberlain
-For the sake of the Gospel

Giving Thanks In All Things

Why do we give thanks? I know that sounds like a crazy question.
Americans spent approximately $28.5 billion dollars on Thanksgiving this year.
The day after Thanksgiving, Americans spent approximately $460 billion dollars.
WOW! I have to admit that I was a part of that group that shopped after Thanksgiving for presents. Tara and I had our list of who to buy for this Christmas and it was a great day to get good deals. But do we really need these things?

I heard a quote on the radio as Tara and I were driving back from South Dakota which this pastor said:
"I use to complain that I had no shoes, until I met a man that had no feet."
It's easy to look around and see what we don't have. Commercials and advertising is there to tell us that we aren't good enough unless we have their product.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 says "give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." It's seems easy to give thanks to God when things are going well. When the family is healthy, the job is going well, the cars are working well, the bills are paid, and the to do list is finished (atleast for now). But that's not what God intended for us. God wants us to give him thanks in all situations. As I was thinking about this verse this came to mind; when I complain and don't give thanks to God in all things, what I am showing God is that I don't believe that He knows what is best for my life.

We don't have a God that likes to make us unhappy. We have a God that loves us so much that He sent His son to die on the cross, a bloody death, for our sins. That in our repentance and faith in Christ we will have peace with God! How awesome is that!

Thank you Lord for dying on the cross for us and taking the penalty of sin on your shoulders. Thank you God for sending your Son to come and live a perfect life as an example for us and then die a criminals death for so that we might be free. Lord I pray that everyday would be a day of thanksgiving and that in all things we would thank You.

Tim and Tara Chamberlain
-For the sake of the Gospel