Awesome, awesome, awesome service today. The band kicked things off in high gear with DecembeRadio's Can't Hide. Strong. The worship was off the hook. Dwight nailed it with his message on grieving properly. It was an awesome continuation of the What Lies Beneath series. Here are the scuds:
- There is no greater danger to your emotional and spiritual health than to not face reality.
- If we don't deal with our grief properly it will destroy us.
- To be spiritually mature is to embrace a commitment to reality.
- The heart of the Gospel is this: there has to be death before there's a resurrection. There is always a loss before a gain.
- There are times in life when God seems to be silent but his silence should never be mistaken as absence. God is always there.
- Truth and time don't always run hand-in-hand.
- You can't do and be whatever you want to do and be. That's new-age thinking. You and I have limitations. You can do and be whatever God wants you to do and be...but not whatever you want to do and be (see Job 14:5).
- Job emerged from his suffering transformed as a humble man.
- Sometimes we focus so much on what we've lost that we forget about what we still have.
2 comments:
I am on duty at FD today so I watched the service on-line. Message was awesome. Once again, God used Dwight to speak directly to me. Dealing with Carla's cancer has been very stressful, and I needed to hear the message today. We didn't have any calls during the service, so I was able to be spoken to even by the music. As usual, the music was incredible and that last song tied in great with the message. My thanks goes out to all of the people who make it possible to worship and learn on-line.
It was one of those messages that was God's perfect timing for us as we've been dealing with some stuff in our fam. I wrote notes and more notes on my little legal pad in front of my computer. I loved that I could take what I heard and apply it at that moment and get such clarity. God really used it and the music was spot on.
We online really appreciate the broadcast on Sunday mornings. I know I would have missed the last two series if NewPointe hadn't started it and they have been a part of creating some real lifechange here.
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