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Weekend Recap – Jesus Is The Greatest!

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Today’s sermon on the Supremacy of Jesus Christ from Colossians 1:1-4:18 is now online. I had a simple goal of letting God’s Word speak for itself and unfold how great Jesus is in this book. It was a fun day.

Also, reading the entire book during the course of a message was an interesting discipline. It seems that many preachers today are more anxious to comment on Scripture than to let them speak for themselves. Hopefully, people found that helpful.

I was struck by the sheer scope of the supremacy of Jesus. Still kind of awed by that! Hope you have a good week.

Weekend Preview – Colossians Begins..

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This weekend, we begin looking at the book of Colossians. The theme: The Supremacy of Jesus Christ. This Sunday, I intend to give an overview of this book and walk us through it. If you can’t be here, please read the book of Colossians, if you are planning on being here, prepare to see the supremacy of Christ in this book.

1000!

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Yes, this is post #1000, and a good lesson in perseverance.

When I first began posting many moons ago, I hoped to be able to put some good resources into people’s hands. Really, I kept noticing that there were so many amazing resources available online and I wanted a place to keep them all together. This blog has served that purpose for me. I’ve also done series of posts on marriage and family, sought to recap and preview weekends at Crestview, which have helped me to actively apply what I am speaking on, wrestled with theological things and also had personal moments, like honoring my mom, my wife, and writing an open letter to Andrew on his most recent birthday. It’s really been enjoyable and I’m anxious to see how God will use this in the future.

Not Called?

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“Not called!” did you say? “Not heard the call,” I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world. (William Booth, Founder of the Salvation Army)

(taken from the latest issue of HeartCry Magazine, Vol 62, p.3)

This volume also features some amazing quotes by Spurgeon on evangelism as well as a sermon from him entitled The Missionary’s Charge.

ZGBriefs…

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Why Be Involved in Missions?

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…according to Rick Cornish…

1) Because missions is God’s passion
2) Because the need is great.

I thought we had a great day yesterday and were challenged throughout the day to be about God’s business. I also thought this tied really well with the emphasis we’ve seen in Luke 15:1-32 and also in our Sent small group study.

Hopefully yesterday left you encouraged and motivated to honor God by being involved with missions.

Servant?

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In Elder’s Meeting a few days ago, we discussed Ajith Fernando’s booklet An Authentic Servant (check out the link for it free online). A tension we felt was how we are so prone to selfish convenience and not wanting to bother with people. It can be so easy to move in that direction. But another tension is the fact that we need to rest effectively. The Sabbath in a concept in Scripture. How do we pursue rest, though, without being selfish. It all made for a good discussion. Any thoughts?