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Chill! It’s All Good!

November 14, 2021 /

When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don’t be alarmed! These things must happen, but they don’t mean that the end has come.

Mark 13:7 (gW)

It’s easy to freak out when watching the news. Everything seems to go from bad to worse.

But Jesus warned us about this, not so that we’d be afraid or upset, but to comfort us and remind us that when these things happed, we can, “straighten up and raise [our] heads, because [our] redemption is drawing near!” [Luke 21:28] And that is great news!

Scriptures

  • Mark 13:1-8
  • Luke 21:25-31

What’s Your Legacy? [All Saints’ Sunday]

November 7, 2021 /

For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

Relevation 7:17

Leaving a ‘legacy.’

It’s something many think about and some strive to accomplish; but what kind of legacy should we be leaving – or looking forward to?

When we get down to it, it won’t be too long into the future when everyone who would remember us has also died – and most of our life and story along with it. Instead of bemoaning that, perhaps we should focus on a true legacy that will really matter – sharing Jesus! If people know and remember Him, and we were able to play some small part of that, that’s a legacy that worth leaving!

And our reward? It’s not to be remembered here by a few, but to be able to “serve God day and night in His temple” where He “will be [our] shepherd, …guide [us] to springs of living water,” and “will wipe away every tear.”

That’s a legacy worth leaving!

Scriptures

  • Revelation 7:2–17

Change is A-Comin’! [Reformation Sunday]

October 31, 2021 /

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by His grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Romans 3:23–24

We all know what it’s like to live in sin. It is a constant and familiar companion in our journey of life. We know it shouldn’t be, but it is.

God has given us another, different, better way to live – the way of Faith; the way of justification; the way of Jesus! In, through, and by Him – and Him alone – our life of sin is transformed eternally to a eternal life of righteousness with Him!

That’s a change we can all get on board with!

Scriptures

  • John 8:31-36;
  • Romans 3:19-28

Jesus is Our Intercessor Forever – Our Forever Ally

October 24, 2021 /

“Jesus is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them”

Hebrews 7:25

Priests were set-apart from others. They were called to different standards and a different way of life.

But they were far from perfect! In fact, they failed in this task miserably!

So God One who would fulfill this function – perfectly and forever: Jesus! And now, He intercedes – faithfully, mercifully, and lovingly on our behalf forever; and through faith in Him, we are covered with His perfection; set apart by God!

Praise God for our “Priest Forever!”

Scriptures

  • Hebrews 7:23–28

“For Better or For Worse”

July 25, 2021 /

The stories of how most of the disciples died is not told to us. The few that are gruesome. The legends of some of the others are even worse.

In God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Psalm 56:11

The fact is, following Jesus caries a high price.

Being the Bride of Christ, in this life, will often be “for the worse.”

The statement, “what can man do to me?” can be answered with “plenty!”

Yet, we are Called to follow anyway; and the result will be well worth it!

That’s His faithful promise!

SCRIPTURE:

“Where Do You Want to Eat?”

July 18, 2021 /

Most of us are aware of the feeding of the 5,000.

They all ate and were satisfied.

Mark 6:42

But we often forget that this happened after an already very long day. Jesus and the disciples were tired and needed to get away, but the people followed them and Jesus had compassion on them. So He fed them; first and foremost with the Word through His teaching, then through bread and fish.

The second miracle is the one we remember, but in its doing gave evidence to the true miracle of Him and the Word!

The question is: what are you hungry for? Food that perishes or the Bread of Life Himself?

By all means, decide where you are going to eat after worship, but know that you have been fed with the Word here and now!

SCRIPTURE:

“This Old House”

July 11, 2021 /

Restoring an old house can be fraught with problems.

Show us Your steadfast love, O LORD, and grant us Your salvation.

Psalm 85:7

Often it becomes a “money pit.” Sometimes you have to gut the house down to the studs. Sometimes even to the very foundation!

Our sins make us dilapidated crumbling (even if we don’t know it).

Our restoration must start with prayer and confession.

Often it means our attitudes and habits must be torn down to the studs – or even our very foundation!

May that Foundation be Jesus!

In Him only are we restored! In Him only are we saved! In Him only is our everything!

Come, Lord Jesus!

SCRIPTURE:

Independence Day

July 4, 2021 /

We can be very myopic in our view of the world and our culture.

Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

2 Corinthians 6:2b

We tend to not look beyond it and to judge matters according to it.

In fact, often we tend to judge God and His Word in light of culture, politics, or parties instead of the proper way around!

How perverse! How ridiculous! How idolatrous!

On this day when we celebrate the independence of our nation, let us not forget to celebrate the true, eternal, material freedom we have in Jesus!

SCRIPTURE:

“Loss Leader”

June 27, 2021 /

Some feel that when you become a Christian, everything becomes easy. Everything is happy. Everything is prosperous.

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, that my glory may sing Your praise and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever!

Psalm 30:11-12

That is far from reality!

But the reality extends far further than the persistence of suffering for Christians. It is rooted in the One who sees us through them. Who supersedes them. Who has overcome them! Entrenched is the reality that such struggles are finite.

“Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.” Psalm 30:5b

SCRIPTURE:

A Bereaved Father: in Three Acts

June 20, 2021 /

Today – Father’s Day – we look at the story of the “Prodigal Son;” better understood as “The Bereaved Father.”

“ ‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me. Everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad. This brother of yours was dead. And now he is alive again. He was lost. And now he is found.’ ”

Luke 15:31-32 (NIrV)

SCRIPTURE:

“Where Do Ya Hang Your Hat?”

June 13, 2021 /

What’s your “comfort zone?” Where do you feel the most “at home?”

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

2 Corinthians 5:17

The problem for most of us Christians is that our answer is not “with Jesus!”

We get very comfortable in this world – with our stuff and way of doing things; with our attitudes and opinions.

Scripture tells us that being comfortable here is separation from the Lord.

We need to change our Comfort Zone to Heaven with Jesus, and let the rest fall where it may!

SCRIPTURE:

“We’ve Got (the) Spirit; Yes, We Do…!”

June 6, 2021 /

Today we have a baptism and celebrate the Holy Spirit granted in a special way.

Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

John 3:5b

We are also reminded of our own baptism and the gift given to all who believe in Jesus.

In and through our Faith in Jesus, we have been blessed by being “born of water and the Spirit!”

What an awesome blessing – and reason to celebrate!

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Sealy, TX 77474

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