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February 22, 2009
“Is It Good that We Are Here?”
Mark 9: 2-13
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Having been born in Baltimore Maryland and having spent periods of my life there and in Ohio and Eastern PA, I have identified myself as a low-lander. But I have in other periods of my life and in my travels become associated with mountains. The mountain range I am most familiar with is the Allegheny or Appalachian range. As I attended Seminary or as my children attended college, the Appalachians always seemed to be between where I was and where I needed to go. Now that I am in Indiana and my father is in a nursing home on the eastern slopes of the Alleghenys I still find myself traversing the mountains. One thing I have learned is that when crossing the higher altitudes of the mountains, things can happen. In my experience those things are usually unpleasant. Most of this unpleasantness occurs as bad weather. Back when I was in Seminary I noted that when I saw the sign marking the highest altitude on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, I was almost always in snow or rain.
A week and a half ago as I was on the way to visiting my father, My wife called me as I was crossing the high point of route 68 which parallels the PA Turnpike. She asked where I was and I said, “in the middle of a snow storm” It was a little nasty up there for about a half an hour.
My experience with mountainous terrain seems to parallel that of the Bible. In the bible when you read that someone went up on a mountain, that is often a clue that something interesting is going to happen. Elijah went up on Mt. Carmel for a showdown against the priests of Baal. Moses went up Mt Sinai to speak with God and to receive the 10 commandments. And Jesus went up on an unnamed mountain and was transfigured for a little while.
This event of the Transfiguration was important for Jesus and it is important for us.
It was important for Jesus because it was a momentary reappearance of his divine powers and glory. Jesus as the Son of God was and is entitled to feel the divine energy flow through and from Him. He is entitled to glow with the Shekinah, the glory of God that would reveal itself to human eyes as a burning brightness.
But in order to accomplish God’s will through his life, death, and resurrection, Jesus had set aside the glowing nature of his divinity at his birth or conception. He allowed his humanity to overshadow his divinity during most of his time on earth.
But now Jesus was at a transition point in his ministry. He had ended for the most part the exciting and pleasant work of selecting Apostles, doing lots of miracles, and preaching in large venues. The next and final part of his ministry would see fewer crowds, fewer miracles, more time teaching small groups of his followers and more persecution from those who sought to destroy him. During this final part of his ministry, Jesus was preparing himself and his followers for his death. Jesus was to become more and more preoccupied with the price he would pay for our salvation.
So, as the Son of God began to prepare for the more difficult parts of his ministry, he took a few minutes to feel the old and familiar Glory of God course through his being as it had before he became the human Jesus. He also took this opportunity to speak with and have fellowship with two of God’s faithful men who had been great leaders of God’s people and who, coincidentally had had their own mountaintop experiences with God. Moses and Elijah conferred with Jesus and offered him Spiritual and emotional support as he looked toward his sufferings and death.
But I earlier said that the transfiguration of Jesus was also for our benefit. How do I know this? Because Jesus took witnesses with him and told them to tell others later on what they had seen. The Holy Spirit of God would see to it that we would be able to read and study the accounts of this event. So what is in this great and strange event for us?
Well, first of all, it is a reminder and further evidence of the Divinity of Jesus. Jesus on this occasion shone with his divine Glory. This was not reflected Glory which occasionally was seen on the countenance of Moses, this was Glory emanating from the divine Son of God.
We can perhaps believe in the divinity of Christ just a little more because of what John and James and Peter saw. They obviously did tell others about what they had seen on that mountain, later, after the resurrection, as Jesus had instructed them.
But this event is helpful for us as we read the passages about the death of Jesus. It is easy to read those passages and think that Jesus was out of control and overpowered by those who plotted against him, by those who nailed him to the cross, and by those who mocked him as he was dying. As we read this passage and see the Glory of the Son of God revealed in Jesus, it is easier to realize that Jesus was not overpowered on the cross. He still had the power and Glory of God in his person. He could have broken free and sat in judgment on his persecutors. He held back his power and glory on the cross and died voluntarily for you and me.
This revelation of the transfiguration of Jesus may make it easier for us to believe in His resurrection. Let me remind you that 2 of the three Apostles who witnessed the transfiguration were the first two to arrive at Jesus tomb after the women reported the resurrection. John believed immediately, Peter may have needed a little more convincing.
But I also believe that there is a great instruction for us in the dialog reported in this passage between Peter and Jesus and the voice of God from the cloud. When Peter saw Jesus glowing and conversing with the long dead Moses and Elijah, He shot off his mouth in the typical Peter fashion and said “Rabbi, It is good for us to be here: let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” Mark tells us that Peter did not know what to say, because they were terrified. Which may serve as reminder that when you don’t know what to say, Don’t.
Sometimes Christians in trying to comfort others during difficult times have said the wrong thing. It is much better to say “I don’t know what to say to you at this time, but I want you to know that I care for and about you”. Don’t say the wrong thing. And don’t let your not knowing what to say to keep you from the people you want to comfort. Go to them and say “I really don’t know what to say to you at this time, but I am here to help you and to suffer with you”
It is possible that Peter, James and John thought that they were present on Judgment day. It is possible that the booths that they wanted make for Jesus, Moses, and Elijah were to become places from which they would judge the sins of all people of the world, or at least those of Israel. Whatever the poorly formed plan that bloomed in Peter’s mind was, it is obvious that it included Jesus, Moses, and Elijah staying on that mountain for awhile. That was obviously not a part of God’s plan, because God spoke from the cloud to Peter and the others saying, “This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!”
Peter was about to mess up God’s plans by acting without thinking very well and God told him to take his directions from Jesus. His directions were to tell no one about the transfiguration until Jesus had risen from the dead.
You know, I believe that the bible makes it clear that Christians are to be God’s gift to this world until Jesus returns. We are the voices, hands, and feet of Jesus among the people of this world until Jesus returns. It is Good that we are here, Good for God, good for the world, and good for us.
But it is not good if we act on our own intellect or the first ill-conceived plan that our minds fabricate. Our presence on this earth among its people is only good when and if we listen to and obey Jesus, the beloved Son of God.
Christians have caused a lot of embarrassment to God and to themselves by not acting according to the instructions of Jesus. To avoid further unpleasantness along this line, I suggest that we all read the words of Jesus that are recorded in the Gospels. seek to understand them. Let them be the rules of your life and your behavior. Then it will be always and truly Good for us to be here.
In my column in the March issue of our church newsletter, I suggest that we all read the gospel of Mark starting on March 1st. After reading Mark, let’s read the Gospel of John. There are 16 chapters in Mark and 21 chapters in John, so if we read one chapter a day, we will able to skip 5 days and still be finished reading these two gospels by Easter. But whether or not you abide by this suggested schedule, you do need to read from the gospels in our Bible because you can’t listen to Jesus if you don’t read his words. And like the Apostles, we need to listen to Jesus if it is to be good that we are here.
Pastor David Horner
Faith Presbyterian Church
West Lafayette, IN 47906
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February 15, 2009
“Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs”
Exodus 15: 1-11/ Ephesians 5: 15-20
Sunday, February 15, 2009
In the past 30 years or so many Christian Churches have been fighting “the Worship wars”. There have been battles about the styles of worship, the types of hymns and songs that are to be sung and how many songs should be sung. Here at faith church we have a very traditional Worship service, but on occasion we do sing some of the more contemporary hymns. While churches have been arguing about what types of song should be sung during Worship, all Christians should be agreed that singing is an important part of worship.
Singing has been a part of the Judeo-Christian religions from the beginning. In our first reading this morning we read the song that Moses wrote and that he and the Israelites sang to celebrate God’s victory over the Egyptians at the Red Sea around 1400 BC. It is interesting to note that this song was composed and sung before God gave the instructions to build the Temple. It was before the directions were given to Israel as to how they were to worship God.
Later, the Jews would be instructed to sing during their worship services and a portion of the Levites would be designated as “singers”, which would lead one to believe that in the tabernacle and temple and synagogue services there was congregational singing and solo and choir singing.
In our Bibles we all have the songbook of the Old Testament Jewish religion. It is the book of Psalms and it contains 150 songs that were used in the liturgy of the Jewish worship services.
After Jesus came as the Messiah, Christians also used the Psalms during their worship services, but it seems that perhaps during Worship and certainly at other times, other songs were sung. In our second lesson from Ephesians 5, Saint Paul writes that he wants the Christians at Ephesus to “be filled with the Spirit, as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves…”
During the first 1500 years of Church history it seems that the church used less and less congregational singing and depended more on professional singers. Singing became chanting. When the reformation came, one of the things the reformers wanted to restore was effective congregational singing. In some of the protestant churches there was a desire to write new hymns for Worship. Martin Luther wrote some hymns for Worship. The most famous of course is the one which we sing on Reformation Sunday: A mighty Fortress is our God. It has proven to be an energizing and comforting and encouraging hymn for the last 400 years to Christians around the world.
But as we will be singing it in a few moments I want to remind you that Luther lived in a world of danger and intrigue. He was living under the threat of death from the Pope. He spent periods of his life hiding in the castles or fortresses of his noble protectors. He saw the forces of Satan marshaled against him even in the church that he had been forced from. He wrote this hymn as an expression of his faith that God was his real fortress who would keep him eternally safe from those who wanted to end his life. Let us think about the fears and bravery of Luther as we sing the first two verse of his great hymn # 469.
While Luther and others of his part of the reformation wrote hymns for worship, those who were more allied with Calvin did not. Most churches who more closely followed Calvin’s teachings believed that the only songs that were to be sung during worship were the Psalms that were in the Bible. New tunes were produced and so were new transliterations of the words, but hymns and spritual songs were not sung during worship in those churches. Our Gray Psalter Hymnal honors that tradition by listing the 150 Psalms as the first 150 selections in the book.
In 1674, Isaac Watts was born into a family of English Dissenters or noncomformists. These were Calvinists who dissented from and refused to conform to the Church of England. As dissenters, the Watts family sang only the Psalms in Worship and probably in their family devotions.
As a young man, Isaac complained to his father about the poor quality of the writing in the metrical Psalters of his day. His father challenged him to do better, and he undertook the effort. During his life he wrote approximately 600 hymns, but most of his best efforts were turned out between his graduation from school when he was 20 and his taking a job teaching when he was 22. Because of his upbringing, many of his hymns are loose translations of some of the Psalms. His great Hymn “O God Our Help in Ages Past” is a paraphrase of Psalm 90. Please join me now in singing the first two verses of this great Hymn which is # 170 in our Psalter Hymnal.
John Newton was an Englishman who wrote hymns in and for the Church of England. He was born in 1725. A sailor by the age of eleven, he was forced to enlist on a British man-of-war seven years later. Recaptured after desertion, he was exchanged to the crew of a slave ship bound for Africa.
A book he found on board--Thomas à Kempis' Imitation of Christ-- sowed the seeds of his conversion. When his ship nearly went down in a storm, he gave his life to Christ. Later he was promoted to be the captain of a slave ship. Eventually he became overcome by the horrible work he was engaged in and left his command.
While working as a tide surveyor he studied for the ministry, and for the last 43 years of his life preached the gospel in Olney and London. At 82, Newton said, "My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things, that I am a great sinner, and that Christ is a great Saviour."
Newton's tombstone reads, "John Newton, Clerk, once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa, was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had long labored to destroy." But a far greater testimony outlives Newton in the most famous of the hundreds of hymns he wrote: Amazing Grace. It has become the most well known hymn in the United States and is sung at the funerals of many policemen and firemen. It was played often during the days just after 9/11 and was most recently performed at an event the evening before the inauguration of the first African- American President of the United States. We will sing this great hymn as our final hymn this morning.
Now I would like to speak about the two hymns we sang before the sermon this morning. Just before the Sermon we sang There is a Balm in Gilead. This is of course an African American Spiritual. Many spirituals came out of the agonies of slaves in America and have become an important part of our church music. Like most Spirituals, little is known about its origins. But it was obviously written to answer the question asked by Jeremiah the prophet in Jeremiah 8:22 – “Is there no balm in Gilead, Is there no physician there? Why then is there no wound for the healing of my people?” In this hymn, the healing balm is Faith in Jesus the Christ. This hymn encourages us to “tell the love of Jesus and say “he died for all”
I would like to end my comments this morning by returning to the beginning. Our first hymn this morning was “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee.” This hymn was written by American clergyman, professor, and poet Henry Van Dyke.
Van Dyke attended Princeton University, then served as pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. Seventeen years later, he returned to Princeton as a professor of English literature. He also served as American ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, Commander of the Legion of Honor, and President of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He chaired the committee that compiled the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship in 1905, and helped prepare the revised in edition in 1932.
In 1907 Van Dyke wrote this hymn while staying at the home of Harry A. Garfield at Williams College, Massachusetts. It was first published in the Presbyterian Hymnal in 1911. It also appeared in the Poems of Henry van Dyke, 1911.
William’s College is in the Berkshire Hills region of Western Massachusetts, an area which many have found to be very beautiful at certain times of the year. Van Dyke was inspired by the beauty of the area to write this Hymn.
Van Dyke wrote: “These verses are simple expressions of common Christian feelings and desires in this present time—hymns of today that may be sung together by people who know the thought of the age, and are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy religion, or any revolution on earth over throw the kingdom of heaven. Therefore this is a hymn of trust and joy and hope.”
The tune of this hymn is of course a modified version of the “Hymn to Joy” from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
So this morning we have sampled a few of the many marvelous hymns of the Christian Church, Songs written to the Glory of God. On this the day after St. Valentines Day we can see them as songs that express our love to God.
Pastor David Horner
Faith Presbyterian Church
West Lafayette, IN 47906
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February 08, 2009
“The God Who Is There and Here”
Isaiah 40: 21-31
Sunday, February 8, 2009
We Christians live in two realms, the physical that we experience through our senses and the spiritual with which we interface through the Bible and our Faith and beliefs.
So did the Jewish people of Isaiah’s day. They lived in a material and political world that they experienced with their 5 senses. They also lived with an awareness of a realm beyond the material. They believed in God and they believed that God was working for their benefit in the world and the universe.
But their descendants would be living in a time when the events of the world would be so overwhelming to them that it would seem to crowd out any awareness of a spiritual realm. The Descendants of Isaiah’s generation would experience an upheaval in their world that would press in upon their existence so severely that it would make them doubt all of the things they had believed about the spiritual realm and their place in it.
The Old Testament Jews believed that God had brought them into their and His promised land. They believed that He would keep them safe in it forever. They viewed certain events of nations and empires trying to conquer Jerusalem and Israel and failing in the attempt to be God’s preserving them in their land. Each time such an event happened, it strengthened their faith in God and in their security in their land.
But during the lifetime of Isaiah a nation known as Babylon was becoming stronger and beginning to build an empire. In the lives of the generations that succeeded Isaiah’s the great might of the Babylonian Empire would be released against Israel and she would not be able to stand against it. Jerusalem and its glorious temple would be destroyed. Most of the people of Israel would be killed and the survivors would be marched off to places within the Babylonian Empire. With the destruction of their temple and their towns and cities came the destruction of their beliefs. They doubted that there was a God. Some of them probably worshipped the Babylonian gods, who seemed more powerful than the God of Israel in those days.
Many found it necessary to use all of their energies and imaginations to survive. They had no time or energy to spend on spiritual contemplations and cogitations.
Under the Inspiration of God, Isaiah wrote the poem contained in Chapter 40 for those who would come after him who would live in the midst of doubts about God.
I have read a portion of this poem to you because I think we live in a time when our physical and material realities have become so intense that we might doubt the spiritual realities that we have been taught or discovered through our searches. We live in an age when the external stimuli in our physical realm keep us so involved and so preoccupied that we have little time or energy to contemplate the spiritual realm. And the stimuli have become so attractive and addictive that we turn them on and keep plugged in to them in every daylight hour and sometimes even when we sleep.
A few weeks ago our youth group viewed a CD which made us sit in silence for about 5 minutes. Much of the presentation was done through white words printed on a black screen. Let me tell you, the silence was deafening.
The purpose of the CD presentation was to have us think about how difficult it is in our day to be quiet and experience the presence of God. After the presentation was over, I mused as to how noisy we like our lives, how when noise is not present, we manufacture it or bring it with us. Our cars all have radios and CD players. I remember the days when Jogging and Running became prominent physical activities. In the beginning a part of the idea of running was to get out in nature, to listen to its sounds and to get away from the pressures of life. Now almost every runner carries a music device and wears headphones. I have also seen many joggers and runners stopping to answer cell phones.
So, while I have you in a relatively quiet place this morning, and while those few of you who are wearing listening devices are supposed to have them tuned into the Worship Service, I would like to point out to you some of the supernatural or spiritual concepts that are in these verses .
The entire poem of course assumes the existence of God, but the places of his existence are mentioned in verse 22; “It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and it inhabitants are like the grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them like a tent to live in…”
God is out of this world, literally. Not only is he beyond it spatially, he is in other dimensions than the 3 dimensions that are here. God lives above or beyond the circle or sphere of this world. He even lives beyond the universe. And yet he is present in the universe and in the world. He has spread out the heavens (our earth’s atmosphere) like a tent to live in. While God is way beyond our world, he is also in it, present with us by his Holy Spirit.
This concept of the presence of God is developed further in verse 23 & 24 “who brings princes to naught, and makes the rulers of the earth nothing. Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest caries them off like stubble.”
God is not only present in our world, he is busy in it. He controls the rise and fall of its rulers and their nations and empires. The Babylonian empire would only last 60 years beyond the destruction of Israel until it would be taken over by the Persian Empire. And the Persians would allow the Jews to return to and rebuild their own land.
So in our own time, as we fear the repercussions of other nations financing our national debt and many other situations we and our nation are facing, I would remind you that God is in control of our earthly politics and our rulers and he will bring all nations and rulers to serve him. That does not mean that we are not to be concerned about ideas and movements that will cause some harm. But God will prevail.
In verse 26 another basic precept of Christianity that is under attack in our world is referred to. “Lift up your eyes on high and see; who created these? He who brings out their host and numbers them, calling them by name; because he is great in strength, mighty in power, not one is missing.” Most of us have been taught that science reveals that the process of creation of the earth and the universe is the big bang and the process of creation of life forms is evolution. Many of us have been taught these scientific theories in such a way that it was inferred that there was no God behind it. Let me remind you that science is concerned with the How of these things, religion is concerned with the Who. And I will go even further and remind you that science has not yet given us its final answers on the how. Many changes in Scientific thought have occurred in the past 500 years, are we to think that there will not be more?
Whatever may be the processes God used to create the universe and the world, the unchanging truth of religion in general and Christianity in particular is that God is the creator. If your God is not the Creator, he is not God.
There have been those who believed and there are those who continue to believe that if there is a god, he really doesn’t care much about what we do, and if everything comes out OK in the end, he will receive us into his kingdom. There are some who believe that God has abandoned them and does not see or care about their suffering. There are also those who think that they can keep their secret sins from God. Some politicians have recently discovered that they cannot keep their records about not paying their taxes a secret from the government or the people. What ever makes us think that our lives of suffering or of sinning are not known to Him? Look at verse 27&28: “Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord and my right is disregarded by my God” Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth, he does not grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.”
God is aware of your weakness and your suffering. God was with the people of Israel every minute of their 70 year long exile in Babylon. And he brought them out. God is with you in your sufferings and in your sinful secrets you thought you had kept from Him.
And He will bring your suffering to an end. See verses 29-31; “He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless. Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
Do you count on the Lord for the strength you need to carry on and to do the Lord’s will? Waiting for the Lord does not mean shutting down and resting until the Lord moves you. It means doing the best you can and counting on the Lord to give you the power and wisdom you do not have.
My friends, we cannot see God in this world and the information we receive about our world and universe rarely mentions God. Sometimes we forget that He is with us working in our world, but the History of Israel and the Holy Scriptures demonstrate that God was working in the world then. If we look carefully at our lives and our world today, we will see God at work, if not now, we will see his work when we look back later.
Pastor David Horner
Faith Presbyterian Church
West Lafayette, IN 47906
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February 01, 2009
“What Have You to Do With Us, Jesus of Nazareth?”
Mark 1: 21-31 (Deut. 12: 20-28)
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Last Sunday our Scripture Passage described the words and acts of Jesus on the shore of the Sea of Galilee at or near the village of Capernaum. At the Sea-shore he called Andrew, Peter, John and James to follow him and begin fishing for men. This week our Scripture passage tells us of some of the things that Jesus did and said in the village of Capernaum shortly after that.
On Friday evening or Saturday morning Jesus attended the Synagogue Service in Capernaum. He was obviously given the privilege of commenting on the Scriptures that were read that day. The people were impressed that he taught with authority. He did not quote other Rabbis and Scribes, he simply quoted the Scriptures and told them how his coming fulfilled the scriptures.
Just after the teaching part of the synagogue service, or at the end of the service, a man who was possessed by an evil spirit asked Jesus two questions, then made a declaration. He said “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.”
Under the power of the evil spirit, the man knew who Jesus was. The evil spirit recognized Jesus as the Holy One of God who had the power to destroy all evil spirits. So since it is obvious that the evil spirit was speaking through the man, Jesus gave his answer to the spirit by saying “Be silent, and come out of him!”
And it did, amid shrieks and convulsions on the part of the possessed man. That leads us to believe that Jesus’ answer to the evil spirit was, “Yes, I have come to destroy you”. But because of other interactions of Jesus with evil spirits and because of the condition of our world almost 2000 years after Jesus walked the earth, we can safely say, that although Jesus did come to destroy evil and evil spirits, he did not destroy all of it or them during his visit in the first century AD. The remaining evil spirits and evil will be destroyed after Jesus returns.
So that was Jesus’ answer to the questions of the evil spirit. But what if the man possessed were to ask those questions? What would the answers be? What if we were to ask those questions of Jesus? What would his answers be?
Since Jesus drove the evil spirit from the man, Jesus’ unspoken answer to the possessed man was “No, I have not come to destroy you, I have come to restore you. You are now in possession of your mental faculties and your own personality.”
Jesus and his Holy Spirit have come to restore us to a relationship with God and a faith in Him. Jesus and the Holy Spirit have come to help us be the best people we can be in this life and to give us an eternal life in God’s kingdom.
But I would like for us to think about the first question the evil spirit asked Jesus in the context of our partaking of the Lord’s Supper this morning.
In our first lesson, Moses reminded the Jews that they were never to eat meat with blood in it. Whenever they killed an animal to eat it or to sacrifice it, they were to pour out the blood as a sacred act because the blood represented the life of the animal. That means that when the Jewish Jesus took wine and offered it to his Jewish apostles and said it was his blood, he was telling them that he was about to give his life for them, he was about to die for them.
So when we come to this meal and ask Jesus “What have you to do with us Jesus of Nazareth?” the answer is “What I have to do with you is I died for you. I gave my life for you.”
After Jesus left the synagogue, he went to Peter’s house and met Peter’s mother-in-law. She was in bed with a severe fever. Jesus healed her and she got out of bed and served Jesus and those who were with him. She is an example for us as to what Jesus wants us to do after he restores us. He wants us to serve him.
As I offer this meal to you this morning I remind you that Jesus died for you. And I want to ask if you are living for Jesus. Are you serving him as you should? If not, let’s work on that.
Let us pray,
Almighty Father, We thank you for sending your son to die for us. Help us to serve you and your followers with what we have left of our lives on this earth and with our lives in your eternal kingdom. We pray this in his Holy Name, Amen.
Pastor David Horner
Faith Presbyterian Church
West Lafayette, IN 47906
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