I am guessing most of us have some ideas of what would make a great Christmas: a certain present, a trip or family gathering, everyone just get along. Now, we are in a room of people who largely believe Jesus is the reason for the season, right? I mean I hate to sound like a cliché here, but it is His birthday. The only one we really need to be thinking about having a good Christmas would be Him, right? So that is what we are going to study this Christmas: what we can do so that Jesus has a good Christmas.

I have a different Thanksgiving sermon today. I am using a passage that has probably never been used with Thanksgiving before. Well, that’s not true, it has been used at least once, by me. I am preaching a message today I preached 11 years ago on Thanksgiving, and while I rarely do this, I felt this one was wort pulling out again. I don’t think we can ever overestimate how important being thankful. I want to start with a story about a tree. I am reading from Ezekiel 31.

I have a different Thanksgiving sermon today. I am using a passage that has probably never been used with Thanksgiving before. Well, that’s not true, it has been used at least once, by me. I am preaching a message today I preached 11 years ago on Thanksgiving, and while I rarely do this, I felt this one was wort pulling out again. I don’t think we can ever overestimate how important being thankful. I want to start with a story about a tree. I am reading from Ezekiel 31.

As we wrap up our weekend of celebrating and honoring our senior adults, Rev. Mike Osborne shares about generations, and how each is to continue teaching and reaching the next generation that follows.

As we wrap up our weekend of celebrating and honoring our senior adults, Rev. Mike Osborne shares about generations, and how each is to continue teaching and reaching the next generation that follows.

So the title of my message today is a tricky one: God Honors the Soldier. I feel like I need to qualify that. That title is not suggesting that God honors every war, that God honors every action of a soldier, or even that God honors every nation that assembles a military. So what does God honor?

So the title of my message today is a tricky one: God Honors the Soldier. I feel like I need to qualify that. That title is not suggesting that God honors every war, that God honors every action of a soldier, or even that God honors every nation that assembles a military. So what does God honor?

We arrive today at the last message of our 2019 Year of the Bible! This has been great, until today. Attempting to cover the whole Bible in 42 messages; yeah, we’re going to miss some big things, and for the most part this curriculum has done a pretty good job until today. To cover Revelation 19-22 in one message . . . No, that’s ridiculous. I decided to cover what comes next: the Second Coming of Jesus. The second coming is synonymous with another phrase in the Old Testament known as the Day of the Lord. These phrases are used to refer to an actual day and a time period. As a time period, the Second Coming of Christ will encompass the rapture, the tribulation, Armageddon, and the physical return of Jesus, a 7-year time period. The Second Coming also refers to a single day the visible, physical return of Jesus to the earth. What a day that will be! A day that will define all of human history and the eternity to come.

We arrive today at the last message of our 2019 Year of the Bible! This has been great, until today. Attempting to cover the whole Bible in 42 messages; yeah, we’re going to miss some big things, and for the most part this curriculum has done a pretty good job until today. To cover Revelation 19-22 in one message . . . No, that’s ridiculous. I decided to cover what comes next: the Second Coming of Jesus. The second coming is synonymous with another phrase in the Old Testament known as the Day of the Lord. These phrases are used to refer to an actual day and a time period. As a time period, the Second Coming of Christ will encompass the rapture, the tribulation, Armageddon, and the physical return of Jesus, a 7-year time period. The Second Coming also refers to a single day the visible, physical return of Jesus to the earth. What a day that will be! A day that will define all of human history and the eternity to come.

Today and next week, and we will have walked through the Bible in 2019. If this is your first time here, you just made it, kind of, to the 41st of 42 messages. I think this has been a great year as we have connected some dots, got a better feel for the big picture, maybe seen some passages we’ve not seen before. And as we now turn the corner to head home we come to a sad story. There’s a conflict between two people in the church, two pillars of the church, two people deeply loved in the church. And there’s not a good ending. I want God to step in and show us whose right and wrong, and then resolution; but we won’t get it.