All Saints Day

Wednesday, November 1st was All Saints Day. This is a time to reflect and thank God for the people of faith who have blazed the trail before us. At Bluffton Campus Life Breakfast Club, we looked at the 8th and final Beatitude. It was an appropriate passage of Scripture in light of the day. After looking at the words of Jesus, we then spent time remembering the persecuted, both those who died for the faith and those currently enduring hardship for Jesus. We did this by having a table set up with barbed wire, open books with stories of "saints" who were martyred, and pictures of believers currently being persecuted. We spent time in prayer for those living that they can either escape or endure their time of suffering. Take a moment and thank God for those who have gone on before us. It's by their lives and sometimes through the shedding of their blood that the faith in Christ has been passed on to us. This sure beats the focus on the day before, known as Halloween. These are the days my friend,
Jim "Train"