Walking with God: Sunday Morning Worship, Part 1

I made it outside for a 1-hour walk in my neighborhood from 8:15 to 9:15 AM this morning. I wore Merrell Vapor Gloves. Before that I prayed and meditated. After that I had breakfast - maybe a little too much - and reflected for a while on the YouTube content I had listened to during my walk. Here it is:

• Ain't No Grave (LIVE) from Bethel Music & Molly Skaggs
• Biblical Perspectives on Health and Fitness from Straight Truth Podcast 
• Why Christians Should Care About Fitness from The Gospel Coalition
• Are You Walking with God? by Dr. Charles Stanley
• The Discrimination Argument Against Religious Exclusivism
• Christian Antisemitism, the World’s Oldest Hatred by Rabbi Tovia Singer

I didn't listen to all of Dr. Charles Stanley's sermon at first. I stopped fairly early on, when Dr. Stanley said that the beginning of our walk with God is when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. "In other words, if I want to walk with God, I can't even get to God except through his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ...Anybody who tells you they are living a good life and everything is fine and they have rejected Jesus Christ as their savior are either ignorant or living in sin and totally blinded by it." I realized that I gently but firmly disagree with Dr. Stanley on this point of doctrine, and this is when I stopped listening and turned to Rabbi Singer on the problem Christian antisemitism (after spending about 5 minutes with The Discrimination Argument Against Religious Exclusivism). Later on, after breakfast, I set this doctrinal disagreement aside and returned to the rest of Dr. Stanley's sermon with unperturbed appreciation.

I hope to walk/jog (or spin if it's raining outside) on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings moving forward. Maybe I will work on my Church Attendance project on all three of these mornings. This Week 30 of 2025, anyway. Let's see.  

Sunday afternoon should probably be focused on my Spiritual Direction project. Sunday evening is for my Thoughts on Music project. All of these will probably end up under "Sunday" as my first Area of Responsibility.