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490 Saved For A Purpose

Jesus is seeking you out in the same way that He sought out a rejected woman at a well some 2000 years ago.

And when you understand this very important truth, you understand that you are saved for a purpose.

John 4

4 Now he had to go through Samaria.

6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. ) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” 11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 

12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?” 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” 16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” 

17 “I have no husband,” she replied. 

18 Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.” 19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 

23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”

25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” 26 Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.” 27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?” 

28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ ?” 

30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers. 42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.” 

My point of emphasis on this passage of scripture is NOT about the fact that Jesus cut the humanistic ties with racism, misogyny, elitism, economic class, religious rules, and every other item that we, as humans, have created … Even though it could be.

My point of emphasis on this passage of scripture is NOT about forgiveness for all … Even though it could be.

My point of emphasis on this passage of scripture is NOT about the fact that Jesus claimed to be God … Even though it could be.

My point of emphasis on this passage of scripture is NOT about Jesus being the LIVING WATER … Even though it could be.

My point of emphasis is this:

YOU, just like the woman at the well, are saved for a purpose.

So if you lack Purpose, then check in with Jesus and connect with Him in a deeper way … because when He saves you He gives you purpose.

And if you are in need of saving, cry out to Him to be your Savior … He is worthy to save.  And He has such a great purpose for you.

He is worthy … and He wants to put something on your life that is bigger than anything you could ever imagine or even ask for.

YOU … were saved for a purpose.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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460 A Life Of Purpose: Valdean Peppler

Yesterday, I had the honor to speak at Valdean Peppler’s funeral.  If you are a family member and want a copy of the Grave side service or Eulogy, you can find it here.  For the blog, just read on.

When Valdean Peppler started a conversation with her friend Elaine she would always say:  “Elaine, today we are one day closer to paradise.”  On March 20, 2024 she left our earth to do just that.  She looked forward to her entrance into heaven and even told my wife in the months before she died that she had dreamed of a new house that was being built for her and that all the streets were Bible names.

I have a hard time contemplating this whole scenario.  But Valdean … she did not.  And when her son Glen Junior reached out to her dear friend Elaine to let her know that she had passed away, Elaine shouted with joy!  They had both prepared themselves for this moment.

And her life represented that:

Well into her life, Valdean found a freedom in rediscovering the offer of John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” 

From the moment she accepted that word, and Him, Valdean’s life was changed forever.

She could not stop reading her Bible.  She lived a life of purpose.  And she became an Agent.

A Change Agent 

A Travel Agent

A Prayer Agent

Valdean was Change Agent  

Upon hearing that a strip club was going to open on Main Street in Longmont, Valdean and her small group began to pray.  They prayed that the Boardwalk would not open.  Not too long after that, not only was there no Boardwalk, there was a Lord’s Walk.  The Lord’s Walk Christian Book Store was not so much a business…it was a beacon, a family run and influenced place to be encouraged, prayed for, and ministered to.  The Lord’s Walk changed a city.  Valdean was blessed by having family help her run the business, but more than that, she was blessed to influence thousands of people.

Valdean was a Travel Agent  

Those of us who knew Valdean heard “Travel with Angels” every time we left her.  It was not just a saying.  Never would this be more vital then a Glenn Junior accident.  Driving too fast, he veered across highway 287, hit a telephone pole, and ricocheted into an enormous tree.  He ended up waking up in the passenger seat and the tree had pushed the steering wheel completely through the driver’s seat.  Some would say that not wearing a seatbelt saved his life.  More would say that God did.

Valdean was also a Prayer Agent

Any Time Someone Needed Prayer, or counsel, or advice, or encouragement, Valdean was a Beacon of Wisdom.  It wasn’t just her gift, it was her willingness to cry out to God in prayer and request … she activated God to help her … and others.

This didn’t apply to just big things, it applied to ALL things.  Over 30 years ago, Valdean was diagnosed with congestive heart failure.  It was a grim situation.  When Valdean heard that her heart was failing and nothing could be done, she simply “prayed and spoke” Psalm 73:26  “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”  Her heart began to improve and her granddaughter Leissa awoke one morning to hear her grandma screaming as her doctor told her “your condition is supposed to be degenerative but by all intents and purposes you had a perfectly normal echocardiogram.

I have always asked:  “Why in some cases does God seem show up and not in others?”  I do not know, and Valdean did not know either.  But she celebrated the victories and kept her faith in the defeats.  She chose to give all glory to God and I know that He was blessed by her worship through the good … and the bad.

I will leave you with this:

Jesus is real.

His house is real.

His love is real.

And He has prepared a place for us…..as John says in John 1:  “To those who would receive Him, to those who would call on His Name, He gives the right to become children of God”

And it is never, ever, too late to live a life of purpose.

It can start today.

And all it takes is discovering, OR rediscovering, the offer of John 3:16.  “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” 

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J

458 Enough For Today

The Kingdom of God is hard to understand.

Matthew 16 16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”  17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 

This is Peter.  And this Peter is the guy who promised loyalty and ran.  This is the Peter who denied even knowing Jesus, the guy who swore just to make that point crystal clear.  This is the guy who fell asleep in Jesus’ darkest hour.

A rock?

Not even a pebble.

But our view of the gospel is always tainted.

We choose to be judged by what we intended to do …

But we judge others by what they did.

But the reality of the universe is really very simple.

God says we will be judged in EVERY WAY.  And the reality is that even a person will say:  “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”

And so here we are …

On the road to Hell.

Enter Jesus.

Full of grace and truth.

Healing the sick.  Raising the dead.

Putting His hands on the unclean.

Standing up for the broken.

But above all of that … He is calling up those who are not equipped — like Peter.

And He is calling you too.

So bring your broken self to the foot of the cross.

Accept His grace.

And go give away His love.

That’s enough for today … and the reality is … It Is Enough For A Lifetime.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J

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