One thing is for sure: You are somebody’s disciple. You learned how to live from somebody else. There are no exceptions to this rule, for human beings are just the kind of creatures that have to learn and keep learning from others how to live.
Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy (Page 271)
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Jesus Won’t Return During Ballet Class!
Sometimes our four-year old daughter, Ladybug, thinks about deep things just before going to sleep. I had a funny conversation with her last night while I was tucking her in…
LADYBUG : Daddy, do you know that Jesus is going to come back again?
DADDY : I do.
LADYBUG : He’ll come down from heaven and will go up to the sky!
DADDY : What made you think about that?
LADYBUG : AWANA. But Jesus won’t come back today, right?
DADDY : We don’t know. It could be today, or tomorrow, or years and years.
LADYBUG : But probably not tomorrow. I have ballet class.
DADDY : Oh, Jesus won’t come during ballet?
LADYBUG : Nope.
So there you have it, Jesus’ return won’t be during ballet class. I love to hear how her little mind processes things!
“Taking Hold of the Inheritance” (Joshua 15-19)
This sermon was extremely challenging for me to write. Granted, I haven’t written that many sermons at this point in my life…but trying to preach five chapters is difficult! And add to that the fact that Joshua 15-19 is mostly lists of the allotments the tribes of Israel received in the Promised Land, and it’s tough to know where to start! But I definitely trust that 2 Timothy 3:16-17 is true and I think it’s important to preach the sections of the Bible that we tend to “skim” or even skip in our own Scripture reading. Expository preaching sometimes forces us to meditate on passages of Scripture that we wouldn’t otherwise (and that’s a good thing!).
There are lots of other things I wanted to include in this sermon, but due to some time constraints in our service this past Sunday I had to edit out some material I had written. But hopefully it’s an encouraging word from a part of the Bible that may not seem to apply to us at first glance.