![]() ![]() ![]() She said, “Nancy seems overwhelmed by our study of electricity.” (laughter) So I am not going to try to explain electrical grounding. Here’s what the dictionary says:Įlectrical grounding is the process of removing excess charge on an object by transferring electrical charges from a short circuit between this object and another larger object.ĭid you get that? (laughter) My third-grade teacher wrote a note on my report card to my parents. Have you heard of electrical grounding? Some of you are nodding your heads. Now, there are some positive uses for that word. It was a huge inconvenience when those planes were-what? Grounded. planes were what? Grounded! Every plane that was in the air at the time had to land at the closest airport, and any planes that were on the ground waiting to take off had to stay-what? Grounded! So millions of people (maybe you were one of them) were left stranded at airports, unable to get to their destination. Then you remember we recently observed the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, when commercial planes were hijacked and crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. It’s how a lot of people felt during the pandemic, right? We found ourselves grounded. ’til you’re twenty-three! You’ll never leave home again! Stay in your room!” It’s a punishment. Sometimes you hear it as a punishment: “You’re grounded. What does it mean to be grounded? Well, you hear the word used in different ways. So, as our hearts were being prepared for this conference, we said, “What should we call it? What should be the theme?” As we sought the Lord, we said, “We still need to be grounded”-Grounded: Standing Firm in a Shaking World. As Mary and Dannah and Robert and I left that convention center in March of last year, they closed the doors behind us, and that was the last convention there for a very long time. It was eighteen months ago in Monterrey, Mexico that we did a Grounded conference, just as the pandemic was shutting down the world. She kicked the conference off by reminding us of the importance of being “Grounded in Christ.” Oh, how it ministered to my heart I know it will yours as well. Of course, we are going to start with our host, dear Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. Over the next couple of weeks here on Revive Our Hearts, we’re going to be reviewing some of the messages from that conference. Our theme was Grounded: Standing Firm in a Shaking World. Last month, thousands of women joined us, both in person and online, for the Revive '21 conference. Maybe your own world is shaking in a unique way. I probably don't need to rehearse the way things are shaking around us. The more time passes, the less stable the world seems. You can never have too much of Christ.ĭannah: Welcome to Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, coauthor of the Bible study Seeking Him, for Wednesday, November 3, 2021. If we have Christ, we have everything we need for time and for eternity. Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth: We have nothing and we are nothing apart from Christ. Dannah Gresh: Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth says Jesus is all we need. ![]()
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