Friends,
What a wonderful time of worship this past Sunday! We were tremendously blessed by NAMB missionaries Pedro and Marisa Sanchez and their family. Taking a cue from the theme for the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, I preached on John 4:35-38 and looked at how we should be “Living With Urgency.”
I challenged us to think about how we could and should live with a greater urgency towards our neighbors and around the world. And perhaps the starting point for this is thinking more urgently about how we are living our own personal faith and witness. And so, Living With Urgency, we should be motivated to 1) Have compassion/be burdened for our neighbors, 2) Guard our personal witness and be Christ-like to ALL people, and 3) Support, encourage, and give for our missionaries. How will you respond?
Download and listen to the sermon here: Living With Urgency – Rev. Bryon LePere
Scriptures referenced:
- John 4:35-38
- John 4:35
- Matthew 9:37, Luke 10:2, 2 Corinthians 6:2
- John 4:36
- Matthew 13:37, Isaiah 9:3
- John 4:37
- Mark 4:1ff
- Matthew 9:36
- Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, 2 Timothy 4:7
- Colossians 4:5, Matthew 5:14-16
#1 by Dorothy on March 11, 2009 - 11:28 pm
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We need to be reminded that we need to live our lives with the urgency to be motivated by a hope for heaven and to help others find that and the love of Jesus. I believe that we all including myself are not living as urgently in our own personal faith/witness as we need and should.. everything in life has a purpose even death, though finding meaning in death is hard but if you are saved you will go to a remarkable place with Jesus but if you choose not to believe in Godthen there is hell a very disturbing place of eternal suffering, burning pain. How will i respond? iI will Go, give pray and encourage…