Tuesday, December 26, 2006
From the Lighthouse Keeper 6.26
Greetings, saints and lighthouse keepers, all!
If you had one chance to communicate with a bunch of people, what would you say?
Sure, it depends on the context. But just before I sat down to write this I heard a song “You Are Loved” (by Rebecca St. James, Best Female Christian Singer 2006.) Rebecca told the radio audience: “I just wanted to tell everyone that God loves you.”
I listened recently to a sermon by Pastor Mark Driscoll, founding pastor of the Mars Hill church in Seattle (surf around a bit at www.marshillchurch.com if you’re curious: Mark noted that there are more dogs in Seattle than there are Christians in Seattle…). Pastor Mark was a guest speaker at some gathering and he decided that given one chance to communicate with this group, he was going to talk about Jesus, so he walked (ran is more like it) through the Old Testament, highlighting 16 prophecies that pointed directly and explicitly to Jesus.
God loves us enough to create this elaborate plan for our salvation. And it’s a gift.
I hope and pray it’s a gift you open daily. Check it out again: “For God so loved the world that he sent his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
Hope to see you at the Lighthouse on Saturday (10 am as we decorate the sanctuary) and in worship on Sunday, as we light the second Advent Candle, the candle of “Precious Purity”.
Pastor Kerry
If you had one chance to communicate with a bunch of people, what would you say?
Sure, it depends on the context. But just before I sat down to write this I heard a song “You Are Loved” (by Rebecca St. James, Best Female Christian Singer 2006.) Rebecca told the radio audience: “I just wanted to tell everyone that God loves you.”
I listened recently to a sermon by Pastor Mark Driscoll, founding pastor of the Mars Hill church in Seattle (surf around a bit at www.marshillchurch.com if you’re curious: Mark noted that there are more dogs in Seattle than there are Christians in Seattle…). Pastor Mark was a guest speaker at some gathering and he decided that given one chance to communicate with this group, he was going to talk about Jesus, so he walked (ran is more like it) through the Old Testament, highlighting 16 prophecies that pointed directly and explicitly to Jesus.
God loves us enough to create this elaborate plan for our salvation. And it’s a gift.
I hope and pray it’s a gift you open daily. Check it out again: “For God so loved the world that he sent his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
Hope to see you at the Lighthouse on Saturday (10 am as we decorate the sanctuary) and in worship on Sunday, as we light the second Advent Candle, the candle of “Precious Purity”.
Pastor Kerry
# posted by Spring City UMC @ 12:26 PM 
