Friday, May 31, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Join us starting this week at Recovery Christian Center at both of our locations for this dynamic sermon series "Transforming Lives Transforming Relationships" Fridays @ 7pm RCC Kensington Presents Gospel Open Mic Nite @ SKA 2418 Kensington Ave in Philly or on Saturdays @ 5pm at RCC West 4110 Haverford in West Philly! IT WILL CHANGE UR LIFE!
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Calling all of Chester and the surrounding areas, today @ 4pm Recovery Christian Center
is traveling to Anointed Full Gospel Methodist Church, 1614 West Ninth
Street, Chester PA 19013 under the leadership of my friend, mentor and
spiritual mother Pastor Margaret M. Benson. I gotta LIFE CHANGING WORD for the house!
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Worship at Recovery Christian Center West was awesome! Co Pastor Paula Burnett-Kimmenez
preached that thang! "You Don't Have to be Humiliated to be Humble!" It
was off da chain! Looking forward to tomorrow afternoon in with
Anointed Full Gospel Methodist Church, 1614 West Ninth Street, Chester
PA 19013 under the leadership of my friend, mentor and spiritual mother Pastor Margaret M. Benson. God gonna show up and show out! Don't miss it!
Worship at Kensington was awesome last night. We bout to get it in West today! Join us at Recovery Christian Center West, 4110 Haverford Avenue in West Philly at 5pm! Our own Co Pastor Paula Burnett-Kimmenez
is our Word Bearer and the tomorrow at 4pm RCC is traveling to Anointed
Full Gospel Methodist Church under the leadership of Pastor Margaret M. Benson in Chester, PA to bring powerful Word.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 5/23/13 - Reevaluating Relationships
"Dear brothers and sisters, honor those who are your leaders in the Lord’s work. They work hard among you and give you spiritual guidance. Show them great respect and wholehearted love because of their work. And live peacefully with each other. Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy. Encourage those who are timid. Take tender care of those who are weak. Be patient with everyone. See that no one pays back evil for evil, but always try to do good to each other and to all people. Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus." 1 Thessalonians 5:12-18
The above text goes along way to describe how we should treat our friends and personal relationship and hopefully how they should treat us. Truthfully though many of us have one sided relationships where we are the ones who are loving and providing for their needs but cannot depend on them for our needs. They're the kind of friend that only calls you when they want something, but can't answer the phone when you're in need. To be practical they're not friends they're parasites and every once in a while we need to reevaluate those kinds of relationships if just to preserve our own sanity. It is very draining to encourage those who can't ever encourage you or to in any way constantly help, listen to or be the shoulder to cry on for those who can never find the time to even call us and ask us how we're doing. Now we're not talking about a brief period in a friendship or relationship where the other person is dealing with a tragedy or trauma that is making them temporarily emotionally unavailable. This is about the relationship being in this state long term. Now the first think we do is attempt to let the person know how we feel and see if that motivates them to change and then if not then it may be time to love them from a distance. We are never relieved of our spiritual responsibility to love them, but we can love ourselves enough not to be a doormat.
"Dear brothers and sisters, honor those who are your leaders in the Lord’s work. They work hard among you and give you spiritual guidance. Show them great respect and wholehearted love because of their work. And live peacefully with each other. Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy. Encourage those who are timid. Take tender care of those who are weak. Be patient with everyone. See that no one pays back evil for evil, but always try to do good to each other and to all people. Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus." 1 Thessalonians 5:12-18
The above text goes along way to describe how we should treat our friends and personal relationship and hopefully how they should treat us. Truthfully though many of us have one sided relationships where we are the ones who are loving and providing for their needs but cannot depend on them for our needs. They're the kind of friend that only calls you when they want something, but can't answer the phone when you're in need. To be practical they're not friends they're parasites and every once in a while we need to reevaluate those kinds of relationships if just to preserve our own sanity. It is very draining to encourage those who can't ever encourage you or to in any way constantly help, listen to or be the shoulder to cry on for those who can never find the time to even call us and ask us how we're doing. Now we're not talking about a brief period in a friendship or relationship where the other person is dealing with a tragedy or trauma that is making them temporarily emotionally unavailable. This is about the relationship being in this state long term. Now the first think we do is attempt to let the person know how we feel and see if that motivates them to change and then if not then it may be time to love them from a distance. We are never relieved of our spiritual responsibility to love them, but we can love ourselves enough not to be a doormat.
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