Simplicity through Obedience

It is easy to feel overwhelmed these days. As soon as we look to make a difference in one area or over one issue or problem we can discover a spider web of connections that extend implications or concerns to a limit we can not hang on to. We can also feel overwhelmed by all that is coming at us, demanding our attention, simply to live the life that we are living. It isn’t hard to suggest that with our information technology and the vast array of connections we share in life that this phenomenon is greater today than at any other time. However, feeling overwhelmed by life is not new to humanity. The woman whose husband lied about their relationship, placing her in the position being taken into the household of another man, the boy whose brothers sold him into slavery, the man who ran into the desert to escape the vengeance of his brother probably felt they could compare their sense of being overwhelmed with ours.

Human beings have limits. Reaching those limits is not difficult.

How do we deal with life? How do we seek simplicity that will help us each day? The example and instruction we have from Jesus is to be obedient first. But, obedient to what?
This seminar will explore the idea of being obedient to the voice of God so that we can handle life, regardless of where it goes. We will seek how to hear the voice of God, to pay attention to the voice, to avoid a list of rules and to not be arrogant in our response to what God puts in our path.

Bio:

Geoff Kohler is the Associate Pastor at Palma Ceia Presbyterian Church in Tampa, FL. Geoff has been a construction worker, a professional clam digger, a mill-worker, a playwright, a speaker, an author, a pastor of an alternative congregation, and the Program Director for Kingdomworks in the inner cities of Philadelphia and Chester, PA – working with urban churches in the creation of their own youth programs. He loves camping, hiking, biking, writing and trying to draw. Geoff is married to Beckie, and they have three children, a son-in-law and two grandchildren. He is very pleased that not even as long ago as last weekend someone said that he didn’t look old enough to be a grandfather [although some days he feels like he surely does].