This weekend at Freedom Valley will feature Ricky Rife preaching the Word.
He will be preaching a sermon I heard before- at his daughter's funeral. While we all grieved, God spoke to him about how powerful Jocelyn's 15 years were because she got what few ever get; that love is what makes life work, gives it meaning, excitement, and burst.
We've been doing the Top Seven teaching of the Bible, and I love this journey. But the fact is, you can know them all as information, and miss what makes them work- love!
I can be unbelievably gifted, and smarter than Solomon, and still miss the value that puts it all together- loving people to share it with.
The Rife family applied their faith and went to work to make Jocelyn's loving heart make a difference. At the end of that week, we baptized 97 people and another 30 since. God used Jocelyn's story again and again to help hurting people put life together and go back to loving others, building relationships, and caring.
This is an amazing family, celebrating Jocelyn's amazing life, and gathering people to see her in Heaven.
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