{"id":869,"date":"2009-10-30T03:51:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T08:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=869"},"modified":"2009-10-29T20:55:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T01:55:02","slug":"this-weekend-tha-gathering-when-a-bulldog-speaks-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/this-weekend-tha-gathering-when-a-bulldog-speaks-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"This Weekend @ The Gathering: When a Bulldog Speaks, Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"This weekend @ The Gathering<\/a> we\u2019ll be continuing our brand new series, \u201cThey Promised Me Chocolate: The True Confessions of a Disappointed Christian.\u201d <\/strong> We\u2019re talking about pushing past disappointment to delight.<\/p>\n

Last week we introduced this idea of disappointment; that we all get disappointed regularly<\/strong>.\u00a0 As a matter of fact God sets us up so that everything that He gives us, no matter what it is, will ultimately disappoint us.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because He\u2019s mean and cruel?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Because He doesn\u2019t want us to find our satisfaction and our ultimate delight in the things He provides,<\/strong> and fail to fall in love with Him.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to be talking about a key ingredient in your life with God.\u00a0 It may not be what you think.\u00a0 It\u2019s something that God requires.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, it\u2019s the only<\/em> thing God requires.<\/p>\n

God doesn\u2019t require high morality.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t require perfection.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t require that we make promises that we can\u2019t keep or make changes to our lives to make us more acceptable in His sight.\u00a0 He demands one thing and one thing only.\u00a0 With it, everything God has to offer is yours.\u00a0 Without it, not even God\u2019s mercy or grace will be yours on a permanent basis.\u00a0 This ingredient is so important that we have to get our eyes set on it before we can move forward.\u00a0 It is the key to understanding what I call the bulldog principle.<\/em><\/p>\n

This weekend we\u2019ll be talking about a unique individual I met <\/strong>when I moved to Huntsville, Alabama back in 1973.\u00a0 He was a 93 year-old janitor who walked with a limp, was deaf in one ear, had two teeth, and was the happiest spiritual man I\u2019ve ever met, before or since.\u00a0 He had something that set him apart from all the NASA engineers around.<\/p>\n

And what I learned from \u201cBulldog\u201d in those days still holds true today, so many years afterward.\u00a0 He had that one thing, that key ingredient, that \u201cit\u201d that unlocks\u00a0 the life with God.\u00a0 What is \u201cit?\u201d\u00a0 Come and find out this weekend @ The Gathering at 9:00 and 10:30 am<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend @ The Gathering we\u2019ll be continuing our brand new series, \u201cThey Promised Me Chocolate: The True Confessions of a Disappointed Christian.\u201d We\u2019re talking about pushing past disappointment to delight. Last week we introduced this idea of disappointment; that we all get disappointed regularly.\u00a0 As a matter of fact God sets us up so … Continue reading “This Weekend @ The Gathering: When a Bulldog Speaks, Listen”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}