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Today, in Joel 2, we see the Lord’s response.  He will drive away the army, and He will do great things to restore and make all things beautiful.  He will repay for the years that the locusts have eaten.  The Lord can and will redeem and restore all things; there will be a new heaven and a new earth. God is not done with us yet. This does not mean that the pain we may have felt in the past is invalid or unimportant. Of course, it is. But what this does mean is that God sees. And God will repay.  God will restore. 

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In Joel 2, we see that God’s day of judgment is far greater than the army of locusts we saw in Chapter 1. That is why we should always be careful when calling down for God’s great judgment; when He comes in judgment, none of us will be good enough. We see good news today, though; as great as judgment is, God’s grace is great.  God’s mercy comes running after us. He longs to forgive us. He loves us and desires to be in a relationship with us. When we turn from our sin and turn to His love, His mercy comes running!

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What is a prophet? What do they do?  What is their task?  As we begin our time together in the minor prophets, we start first with Joel.  We look to Joel, and we see great brokenness.  In the face of that, we cry out to God. There is a great plague of locusts that are destroying everything in Joel’s time, and that will bring great destruction. In the midst of that, all we can do is turn to  God out of our pain, our hurt, and our loss.  This brokenness in the world can also lead us to understand the brokenness in ourselves. With that, we are led to repentance and to the healing of God’s Spirit. 

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Today, in our Traditional service, Andy shares with us from John: 12 20-33.  We see that we struggle with our greatest temptation - to make our lives completely about ourselves and not about God.  To find life, we must die to ourselves.  

Philemon is an interesting small book in the New Testament.  Normally, we see Paul appealing to his authority as an apostle, but he doesn’t do that in this letter. In fact, quite the opposite.  Paul appeals to love and relationships here as he encourages Philemon to receive Onesimus back. We talk a little about what these relationships look like, about the power of God to save and transform, and then about the good that comes from telling others about Jesus!

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In our Traditional message from March 10, 2024, we look at John 3: 14-21.  We are told that people love darkness more than light. We wrestle against the dark, every day, the darkness that tries to pull us down. But, in truth, darkness can never overcome the light. We have nothing to fear; we stand in the light of Jesus!

Paul reminds us today that we weren’t always a Christian. What does that reminder do for us?  It made me think of one of my favorite contemporary Christian songs from the 1990s by Steven Curtis Chapman - Remember Your Chains.  This song, like Paul’s words, is a reminder to remember that our salvation is not something we have earned, but it is a gift. And we should remember that and remember who we used to be. When we remember that, it makes us more thankful for God’s gift and (hopefully) more loving of those who are now where we used to be.

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Paul continues to give Titus advice about how he should train the Christians in Crete.  One of the words he continues to give to Titus is self-control. This is mentioned several times in chapter two.  Why?  Why, for Paul, is this such a big deal?  We see that Paul is trying to teach Titus the importance of that self-controlled life, in contrast to the people of Crete, who seem to be doing whatever they please.  A life of living for yourself may look appealing. But Paul warns us that it is not the path for us to walk. 

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We meet Titus today.  He is a Gentile Christian leader, someone brought into the faith by Paul.  Paul trusted him to be the pastor of a church he loves - Corinth, and we see today that Paul left Titus in a very hard place for ministry. He left Titus in Crete.  Paul tells Titus to work on appointing leaders for the church there, and of all the things that Paul tells him to look for - look for this: character.  I think that’s what our church should be focusing on in all things. Not the gifts but the character of the leader and the follower.  That character is the contrast that the world needs to see! 

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We see Paul end this letter to Timothy with someone he does at the end of nearly every letter he writes - he thanks people. I sometimes call it his shoutouts. Romans 16 is my favorite example of this. But what he is doing is greeting and giving thanks to all the people who make his ministry possible. It is a reminder we walk together. We need each other. We do not walk alone.  Today, I need you.  You need me. We need each other.  Paul reminds us of that truth today. We need each other. 

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