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Last Sunday evening at the ABF at Brandon and Christina’s home we had a question and answer session about the morning sermon… hopefully you will recall I preached on The Lord’s Prayer last week, and I spent a good deal of time on the subject of forgiveness. One of the questions came from part of a quote that I read… here is part of that quote:
I forgave her and it took me a whole year and I had to forgive her in small sums over that whole twelve months. I paid those sums whenever I spoke to her and kept myself from rehashing the past.
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Three weeks ago we began to study one of the most familiar passages of Scripture in all the Bible… the Lord’s Prayer. Now familiarity can be good, but there can also be a down side… it’s possible to think, “I already know this.” Knowing is one thing, but putting into practice what you know can be quite another matter. A large part of a pastor’s job is to equip you to close the gap between your professed faith and your functioning faith. That is my goal today. Read the rest of this entry »
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If you and I went out into Anytown, USA and asked people, “If you could have one wish… any wish at all granted to you,” what do you think most people would say? Would it be for more money? A different/ better spouse? Better health? How about, “I’d like to look like Julia Roberts or Brad Pitt,” or “I’d like to be famous,” or “I’d like to play golf like Tiger Woods.” I think a lot of people would ask for such things, but to get to the one thing that people really wanted most, perhaps it would be better to ask, “If there is one thing in life that you could avoid, what would it be?” I believe the overwhelming answer would be, “I want to avoid death.”
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Next Sunday we celebrate Easter. For many Christians, Easter and Christmas are the 2 biggest days of the year, and rightfully so as we celebrate the birth of Christ on Christmas and we celebrate His resurrection on Easter. I know it is obvious but I am going to say it anyway… there would be no rainbow without a rainstorm, and more importantly, there would be no resurrection without death. We all like rainbows, but we don’t like the storm that precedes it. And we all like to celebrate the resurrection, but again, we don’t like the storm that precedes it.
