{"id":383,"date":"2008-09-15T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/one-church.net\/wordpress\/?p=383"},"modified":"2008-09-15T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T16:18:00","slug":"on-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/15\/on-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"On Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had the opportunity to speak to a small group of college students called Christian Challenge (check them out on line <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hutchchallenge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">http:\/\/www.hutchchallenge.net\/<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They meet every Monday night at Venue 302 in Hutch and it&#8217;s always awesome to be with them. On this occassion I had the opportunity to teach on the issue of vision (or God-given direction in life).<\/p>\n<p>Hope it&#8217;s helpful to some of you. Many blessings.<\/p>\n<p>(By The Way&#8230; this was recorded with my little FLIP camcorder sitting on the front row&#8230; so, sorry about the quality)<!--more--><\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><span lang=\"en-us\"><span style=\"font-size: 116%;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Acts 10:1-8 Cornelius Calls for Peter <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; text-indent: 9pt;\">\u00a0<span lang=\"en-us\">At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. <\/span><sup><span lang=\"en-us\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\ufeff2\ufeff <\/span><\/span><\/sup><span lang=\"en-us\">He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly. <\/span><sup><span lang=\"en-us\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\ufeff3\ufeff <\/span><\/span><\/sup><span lang=\"en-us\">One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, \u201cCornelius!\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; text-indent: 9pt;\"><sup><span lang=\"en-us\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\ufeff4\ufeff <\/span><\/span><\/sup><span lang=\"en-us\">Cornelius stared at him in fear. \u201cWhat is it, Lord?\u201d he asked. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; text-indent: 9pt;\"><span lang=\"en-us\">The angel answered, \u201cYour prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God. <\/span><sup><span lang=\"en-us\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\ufeff5\ufeff <\/span><\/span><\/sup><span lang=\"en-us\">Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter. <\/span><sup><span lang=\"en-us\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\ufeff6\ufeff <\/span><\/span><\/sup><span lang=\"en-us\">He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; text-indent: 9pt;\"><sup><span lang=\"en-us\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\ufeff7\ufeff <\/span><\/span><\/sup><span lang=\"en-us\">When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants. <\/span><sup><span lang=\"en-us\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\ufeff8\ufeff <\/span><\/span><\/sup><span lang=\"en-us\">He told them everything that had happened and sent them to Joppa.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"mso-footnote-id: ftn1;\" name=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"\/bcCreateEntry.aspx#_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"mso-element: footnote-list;\">\n<div id=\"ftn1\" style=\"mso-element: footnote;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0in;\"><a style=\"mso-footnote-id: ftn1;\" name=\"_ftn1\" href=\"\/bcCreateEntry.aspx#_ftnref1\"><\/a><span id=\"__spanCitationData\"><em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">The Holy Bible : New International Version<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">. 1996, c1984 (Ac 10:1-8). Grand Rapids: Zondervan<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had the opportunity to speak to a small group of college students called Christian Challenge (check them out on line http:\/\/www.hutchchallenge.net\/.<\/p>\n<p>They meet every Monday night at Venue 302 in Hutch and it&#8217;s always awesome to be with them. On this occassion I had the opportunity to teach on the issue of vision (or God-given direction in life).<\/p>\n<p>Hope it&#8217;s helpful to some of you. Many blessings.<\/p>\n<p>(By The Way&#8230; this was recorded with my little FLIP camcorder sitting on the front row&#8230; so, sorry about the quality)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}