Wellington Church of Christ

Do I dare ask?  How are your New Year’s resolutions coming along?  Did you make any to break?  Are you still going strong or have you already utterly failed?

There’s a consistent preaching method we see in the New Testament that many preachers have gotten away from these days. 

I don’t think it has a specific name, so I’ll call it, “Bad News First Preaching.”

As is our New Year tradition, let’s look at every Book of the Bible with 20 chapters and 23 verses and see what’s in there –

I truly believe that the greatest gift that can be shared with another person is the knowledge of Jesus.  That’s part of why it’s so exciting to me to be preaching on Christmas day this year.

But if Jesus is the greatest gift, what is the second greatest gift?

The Grand Canyon is magnificent and it cannot be described in words.  The Lord our God is far and wide and beyond the imagination more magnificent than The Grand Canyon.  How does one even begin?

Some questions cannot be answered simply, but that doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be answered.  The problem is, we live in a world where complicated answers are often not tolerated.

As we’ve been studying the birth of the Lord’s Church in the first chapters of the Book of Acts, and discussing how the ideal thing for us is to capture the same essence, the same attitudes, and the same devotions as the first century Church, you may have noticed a word that is conspicuously missing from the text.

This Sunday, there will be a special collection made for Orphans Lifeline International.  This is a mission effort that has been supported by our church family since before I came, and one that I think is a wonderful work to support.