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The Smallest Things

4/24/2015

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By Darrel Proffitt,
 Have you ever noticed that much of life is made up of small, insignificant events and little choices we make from day to day?  The big events and choices are remembered.  If you are married, you might remember the day you chose to propose to your wife or you might remember the day your husband proposed to you and you made the decision to say “yes.”  That was a big day and a big decision.  Maybe you remember the day when you decided what college to attend or what job offer to accept.  Again, those are big decisions and big events.  I am not sure how many of those kinds of choices we make over the course of a year but I am sure there are many. 
Consider, though, the little, seemingly insignificant decisions we make every day.  When to get out of bed, what to eat for supper, which streets and highways to take to work, whether or not to send a particular email, what conversations to have or not have.  Those kind of decisions fill each of our days to the point they cannot be counted. But those little choices may have a huge effect on our lives. 
What would happen if we started paying more attention to those kind of seemingly insignificant choices?  What kind of effect would that have on our lives?  Say you are struggling with your weight or health and you have not noticed the bad choices you are making every day.  Perhaps if you paid more attention you would make the small choice to walk up the stairs instead of taking the elevator?  Perhaps you would choose to eat and apple rather than the pastries someone brought to work?
Our problem is that we rarely see any improvement when we begin to make healthier, holier choices.  We are an impatient people.  We know what we want and we want it now.  This is true in both our physical health and our spiritual health.  Rarely do we find that both hinge on the big events and the big choices of our lives.  It’s the small decisions, the small compromises that have a compounding effect on our lives.  Perhaps if we paid more attention to the small things, we could find our lives greatly enhanced.
There is no pill we can take that will bring us immediate results in either or physical and spiritual health.  But if we pay attention and make incremental improvements in our life, we will find that slowly (at first) things do begin to improve.  So start small but be consistent.  It really is in the smallest of things, consistently practiced over a long period of time that will bring us better health: spiritual and physical.


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The Five Things God Uses to Build Big Faith

4/23/2015

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By Darrel Proffitt, Lead Pastor
I asked this question two weeks ago in the beginning of our sermon series on building big faith: Can you imagine if you had the kind of faith that no matter what happened to you, you knew that God would see you through? The kind of faith that even if you were facing huge obstacles and challenges you could say “I don’t know why I am facing this but God is good and I will trust Him?” That’s the kind of faith God wants us to have.
Our problems as humans began when we lost our trust in whether God had our best interests in God’s own heart. When the serpent said to Eve, “Did God really say that,” she began to question whether or not God was trustworthy. What if God didn’t want them to eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because he wanted to keep them both from something that might be beneficial to them? Could God be trusted?
For us, the problem we face in the same. Have you ever struggled through something and thought “why is God doing this or allowing it? Is God aware? Does God care?” When we struggle that way, we are really questioning whether or not God can be trusted. The entire Bible is full of story after story of God telling His people to trust Him. But over and over God’s people struggle with this trust issue.
Can you imagine the fear and anxiety in the hearts of the disciples on the day of Jesus’ crucifixion? What was God doing? What would happen to them? Can God be trusted?
I encourage you to come this weekend as our series continues. God continues to reach deeply into the hearts of all at COTHA as we transition from being, as I said last Sunday, a church with people who are willing to admit to struggles and to seek help to a church of people with big faith, able to say even in the midst of the most difficult challenges, “God is a good God, and He will see me through. I may not understand why these things happen but I know that God can be trusted and will use these challenges for His glory and my good.”
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Finding Your Place

4/2/2015

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By Darrel Proffitt, Lead Pastor


One of the most important things that you can do at COTHA is to find a ministry and start serving.  We are a growing church.  Each week we have many guests who are checking us out.  Many of those people hang around for a while and then respond to God’s invitation to join us.  This is both exciting and rewarding.  God continues to bless us and it is a great joy.
We are constantly seeking ways to help people connect when they join our church.  Connections are extremely important so that people will feel like they are part of what God is doing in our midst.  There are some who may think that they don’t have much to offer and so they may hold back and not get involved.  That sentiment, while understandable, could not be more wrong.  God has gifted all of us when spiritual gifts that are to be used to build the body of Christ at COTHA.  God gives us those gifts, not so that we will feel good about ourselves but so that we can serve others.
 There are many ways that you can get involved and find your place at COTHA.  I want to invite you to talk to Sean or email him at sean@cotha.org.  Catch him on Sunday or send him an email.  Sean is truly gifted in helping people find their way.  We are always in need of more people in any of our ministries or perhaps you have an idea to start a new ministry.  We want to help you to do that!
I encourage making the Easter season a time where, if you are holding back, you begin to serve.  As a wise man once said, “if you are not serving, you’re not living, you’re just existing.  I thank God for all of God’s people at COTHA.  His plan for us is stunning.  Let’s not go to church; let’s be the church! 
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To the Cross and Beyond

4/1/2015

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By Darrel Proffitt, Lead Pastor
Holy Week is about to quicken its pace. Our schedule is full of worship services starting on Wednesday. Each one is intended to help us enter into the story at a deep level. It is easy to skip over these services and point ourselves to Easter but what a loss that is. As I mentioned last Sunday, to enter into the story at a level where we suspend time and space, Holy Week can be transformative. It hits us at a visceral level, knowing that the words we say, the prayers we pray and the stories we hear are purposeful. They bring us to the historical reality that the Son of God was betrayed, denied, beaten and was executed. The prophets of old had told us that this would happen and explained why it would happen. Our sins placed Jesus on the cross and his love for us kept him there. What kind of love is this? We can only scratch the surface of understanding but the services of this week enable us to go a little deeper.
Our lives are full of activity. This week is no different than most weeks. There are school activities and the demands of work. But in so many ways this week is different. We do not take this journey of Holy Week alone. There are billions of other believers around the world who will take these steps and reflect on the profundity of God’s love. But God will be with us. It is his desire that we move beyond the superficial and enter into the depth of the story of his love for us.
While we know that we cannot literally return to the first century to experience those events that Holy Week commemorates, we can experience at a deep level what it means. I invite you to join we me and your church family as we takes those steps to the cross and empty tomb this week. Let the words of the old spiritual resound in our hearts.
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Oh were you there when they crucified my Lord?
(Ohh, sometimes it causes me to tremble)
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they nailed Him to the cross?
Were you there when they nailed Him to the cross?
(Ohh, sometimes it causes me to tremble)
Were you there when they nailed Him to the cross?
Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?
Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?
(Ohh, sometimes it causes me to tremble)
Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?
Well, were you there when the stone was rolled away?
Were you there when the stone was rolled away?
(Ohh, sometimes it causes me to tremble)
Were you there when the stone was rolled away?
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1225 West Grand Parkway South
Katy, TX 77494
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