Before you head off into your weekend, here are three things that I’ve read and have been thinking about this week. Have a great weekend! #1 Key for leadership is the capacity of retrospection and the capacity of being fully present. Gordon T. Smith – Courage and Calling Retrospection is the the action of looking… Read More top3 for January 27, 2023
January 15, 2023 Sermon Series: People of Light Sermon Title: Light Response Text: Isaiah 49:1-7 Preacher: Todd Nelson Sermon Podcast: https://downtownlex.org/podcast/ __________________________________________________ The prophet Isaiah had an amazing calling by God which begins, “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, and the hem of… Read More People of Light in the Arena of Darkness
January 8, 2023 First Sunday after Epiphany People of Light Isaiah 42:1-7 Sermon Podcast: https://downtownlex.org/podcast/ _________________________ We are now in the season after Epiphany. Epiphany takes place on the thirteenth day after Christmas Day. It is the day celebrating that the gospel was opened to the Gentiles. The story of the wise men following a… Read More People of Light
Before you head off into this second weekend of 2023, here are three quick hitting things that I’ve read and been thinking about his week. Have a great weekend! #1 After wasting far too many years trying to do the spectacular, it has finally occurred to me that God loves routine. All of creation holds… Read More top3 for January 6, 2023
Sermon from January 1, 2023 Isaiah 63:7-9 Sermon podcast available at https://downtownlex.org/podcast/ __________________________________________ In chapter 63 of Isaiah, Israel has returned from exile to a torn-up Jerusalem and a host of other problems. The chapter examines their response to finding things left bad and the entire journey ahead being overwhelming. And in the middle of… Read More Glass Half Full God
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