Pastor Tom's sermon revolves around the book of Micah, exploring the profound themes presented in this ancient text. He explores the central message of the book revolving around three aspects of God's character: The Lord Judges Justly, The Lord Shows Mercy, and The Lord Maintains Covenant Love. Throughout the sermon, there is an underlying message that despite the chaotic and challenging times, individuals can trust in the character of God. By reflecting on God's justice, mercy, and covenant love, people can find hope and direction in their lives, mirroring Micah's unwavering faith amidst adversity.

In this sermon, Pastor Roger highlights God's compassion as the central theme of the book of Jonah. He emphasized the transformation of Jonah from selfishness and disobedience to being a willing instrument of God's message. Despite Jonah's initial reluctance and anger, he eventually obeyed and proclaimed God's message to the people of Nineveh, who responded with repentance and humility. Pastor Roger points out that we, too, should embrace God's compassion and not withhold it from those we deem undeserving. He challenges us to view others as God does and strive for personal transformation in the likeness of Jesus.

The vision of Obadiah.This is what the Sovereign Lord says about Edom—We have heard a message from the Lord:
   An envoy was sent to the nations to say,
“Rise, let us go against her for battle”—“See, I will make you small among the nations;
   you will be utterly despised.
The pride of your heart has deceived you,
   you who live in the clefts of the rocks[a]
   and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
   ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
Though you soar like the eagle
   and make your nest among the stars,
   from there I will bring you down,”
declares the Lord.

Obadiah 1:1-4

Seek the Lord and live,
   or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;
it will devour them,
   and Bethel will have no one to quench it.There are those who turn justice into bitterness
   and cast righteousness to the ground.He who made the Pleiades and Orion,
   who turns midnight into dawn
   and darkens day into night,
who calls for the waters of the sea
   and pours them out over the face of the land—
   the Lord is his name.
With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold
   and brings the fortified city to ruin.There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court
   and detest the one who tells the truth.You levy a straw tax on the poor
   and impose a tax on their grain.
Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,
   you will not live in them;
though you have planted lush vineyards,
   you will not drink their wine.
For I know how many are your offenses
   and how great your sins.There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes
   and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

Amos 5:6-12

For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.

Joel 2:13

Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites, because the Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: “There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land.There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.Because of this the land dries up, and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea are swept away.

Hosea 4:1-3

Hear this, you leaders of Jacob,
   you rulers of Israel,
who despise justice
   and distort all that is right;
who build Zion with bloodshed,
   and Jerusalem with wickedness.
Her leaders judge for a bribe,
   her priests teach for a price,
   and her prophets tell fortunes for money.
Yet they look for the Lord’s support and say,
   “Is not the Lord among us?
   No disaster will come upon us.”
Therefore because of you,
   Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,
   the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.In the last daysthe mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
   as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
   and peoples will stream to it.Many nations will come and say,“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
   to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
   so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law will go out from Zion,
   the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Micah 3:9-4:2

“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

John 17:24-26

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

John 17:20-23