Hello on this hot summer day in August. School is now in session. The highways are bustling with school buses, high school and college student drivers, and teachers and parents with school children all trying to get to their respective places. We all must adjust our lives to a brand new school year. And while we make the proper adjustments, we must not allow our busy schedules to negatively affect our priorities. Jesus said, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matthew 6:33).
God calls each of us to focus and refocus our attention every day, especially every Sunday. We meet with our fellow Christians for worship together at 9:00 on Sunday morning where we sing, pray, give, remember Christ in the Lord’s Supper, and hear a message from God’s word. We have the privilege and opportunity to return for worship and study on Sunday evening at 5:00. This is not just “what we should do.” This is “who we should be.” We also need refreshing and revival in the middle of the week. On Wednesday evening at 7:00 we meet for Bible study and a period of devotional. We always dismiss at 8:00 so that we all can get home in preparation for work and school the next morning. Please realize the importance of these assemblies and make every meeting a priority for your family. Our children should never need to ask: “Are we “going to church” on Sunday?” or “Are we going to Bible study tonight?” or “Do we have to go to Bible study?” or beg: “Mom, Dad, please, please, please can we go to Bible class?” or any other question or statement that would reflect the idea that assembling together in the name of Jesus Christ was anything less than a priority in our family. Mom and Dad; make sure you promote Christ and Christian living every day in your home, in your life, and in the lives of your children.
Our Sunday morning series “Heaven – Why I Want to Go” continues this week with the next three reasons I want to go to heaven; I am excited about my mansion, Heaven is a place of no tears, no pain, no sorrow, and no death, and Heaven is a place of rest and peace. I wish I could share these lessons with you so that you would resolve not to miss heaven no matter the cost, no matter the sacrifice, that no matter what you had to do or be you would do it and be it. Heaven is so wonderful, there are no words in any language that can come close to describing it. I’m going…one day…when God is ready.
I love Sunday evenings at Harding Street. We’re looking at what could and would happen if we all “Turned/Returned to the Bible.” Last time we looked what would happen in the world. This Sunday evening we will consider what could and would happen in the church if we all turned/returned to God’s word. If we would turn or return to the Bible we would love God supremely, more than anything else in the world. Because we love God, we would love one another as Jesus loves. Then we would love others, even our enemies because we love God and one another. Our love would bring peace into the church and into the world.
Come and see. Come and hear. MB
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