(His truth) are landing on human ears with the power to save! Let's go Our words are rising to the ears of a risen Lord. We aren't just doing Christian karaoke on Sunday mornin! NO!
That makes our songs different from every other song in the world! Jesus is ALIVE!!! That makes everything different! Invites them, or quite possibly just because they are tired and thirsty.Īll of those scenarios are under the banner of a RISEN Lord drawing their Penance, maybe because it just happens to be a day when someone actually Maybe to try to relieve some guilt, pay their once-a-year Folks are going to walk in the doors of our churchīuildings at the end of this month quite possibly for the first time It can save men like Shane Barnard, the worst of sinners.
Raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from theĭead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit Who dwells inīe reminded that the resurrection is NOT normal! The Gospel is not powerless. True but in the week after week of singing it and saying it, the resurrectionīe reminded today that, “if the Spirit of Him who Maybe you are like me in that you know this to be The powerįollow Him in life, follow Him in death, and follow Him in resurrection. Six words… six words that would be good for us to remember today. Through with the only audible prayer I can remember him praying. Longest seconds of awkward silence ever when Dad’s low, scratchy voice broke So there we were, sitting around the table on anĮaster Sunday - my brother, his wife and kids, my Mom and I - when the Needle, and my family and I had absolutely no grid for how that could ever God was going to have to somehow make a camel go through the eye of a As it is with any dead heart, it was going to I think down deep I didn’t really believe “John Wayne” could be bornĪgain, but I still cried out. My heart to God, begging Him to save my Dad. “It all turns black,” seemed to be his idea of future grace.Īs a believer, I spent fifteen plus years pouring out There was zero interest in anything pertaining to the Lord or the afterlife. He seemed to have a deep contentment in his own ethic and way of life. Large, powerful, low scratchy voice two solid My dad was the spittin’ image of John Wayne. “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futileĪnd you are still in your sins.” (1 Corinthians 15:17)
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