Sunday Faith In A Friday World

 

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It’s post-Easter.

Sunday has already come.

In this new economy, we have the hope of our physical resurrection from this earth and translation to glory – in glorified bodies – to our forever homeland.

Amen.

Indeed, that is our “Sunday, one day” reality…but we don’t much feel like we’re people of resurrection in today’s culture…and from a slowly-turning calendar.

The calendar tells us it’s (still, ‘somewhat’) Friday for us. 

  • Gethsemane ever goads us to Golgotha.
  • Waiting with the Lord one hour is our struggle too.
  • To forgive our tormentors is our mandate.
  • We’re surrounded by our own “bulls of Bashan.”
  • A secularized culture taunts our discipleship.
  • We’re saddled with a whole earth that “lies in the power of the evil one” (1Jn 5:19)
  • Injustice is everywhere.
  • Darkness covers our earth.
  • The bread of adversity and water of affliction (Isa 30:20) is our communion.

What, then, is our play? 

How do we make it to Sunday?

How do we BE a people of Sunday?

In today’s podcast* (#25), the first of a two-parter I got to preach to my former congregation, we’ll try to navigate through this dilemma with five practical and hopeful revelations from John 19:24-27.

Join me, won’t you?


* I apologize as the quality of the recording is lacking…but the message is so important! Thank you for sticking through!!!

 

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Pasturescott

For nearly three decades, Scott ministered in churches, at youth events, to professional athletes, and was a frequent speaker at disability camps. He served another seventeen years as the senior pastor of a local church in Douglasville, Georgia. ••••• Scott has a unique ministry to those who are hurting since his own disability allows him access to a suffering world. He ministers these days through his blog, teaches and preaches occasionally, and is still very much engaged in discipling younger men and encouraging pastors. ••••• Married to Sandy, his loving companion of forty years, Scott continues to brag about how she hung his moon and is the best person he’s ever known. They have a son, Graham, who waits for them in heaven. ••••• Scott and Sandy presently make their home in Clearwater, Florida.

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