Good Wednesday Everyone,

Weekly blessings to all. Happy Easter week as well. As you all know we Christians, have experienced Easter Week, and we have arrived at Good Friday. This is where the wonderful weekend of Easter for us, and the weeklong Passover feast with the disciples took a terrible turn. For us, today took an awful historical turn, for the disciples it took a disastrous personal, physical, psychological, and spiritual turn. Today we know what happened. The disciples and followers of Jesus were living through absolute and total confusion, terror, and uncertainty. Good Friday was a horrible day!! …

…We are approaching the end of our sermon series in the life of Job. When you read the middle chapters of Job, one can get lost in the repetitive narrative between Job and his friends. But right in the middle of the dialogue of Job claiming his innocence from sin, and Job’s friends insisting upon Job’s guilt, God speaks from the whirlwind. So, many times God speaks to us from His word, through the wise counsel of His saints, and from answered prayers. In reading these middle chapters of Job, you must wonder if God was waiting for Job to finish his defense, and for his friends to cease their counsel. It’s as if God said, “Are you all through? Can the King of all Creation speak now?” How many times God must have wanted to speak to Job. But Job wanted to prove he was right, and the others wanted to prove they were right. In the middle of all this God said from a whirlwind, “Enough!” And then, God Almighty spoke…

…The sermon series of the life of Job is nearing conclusion, but not before God Almighty speaks. When God speaks, He speaks answers, convicts, comforts, and the most valuable of all He speaks TRUTH. Last week, God spoke His way. The way God works in all things is beyond our explanation and shatters our understanding. God’s way is incredible to follow and to trust. Therefore, it is equally incredible that most people refuse to accept God’s way, or arrogantly convince themselves that His way is one of many available and possible ways to follow and trust for worldly success…

…This Lord’s Day also brought to us the news of one of our saints going home. When we arrived Sunday morning most learned of the earthly overnight passing of Mr. James “Ren” Heartsill. The postings and stories now being shared across our community tell us how greatly Ren will be missed. Be assured, Ren is waiting for us with his Saviour by his side. For as much as we will miss Ren on earth, we know a glorious reunion awaits us one day in heaven…

…Nothing in this world and nothing we have is better than having God. We can have health – but health is not as good as having God. We can have wealth – but wealth is not as good as having God. We can have comfort – but comfort is not as good as having God. Job had all those things and much more – but Job needed God: ALL of God. We “get all” of God in a two-step process through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Read the following carefully and prayerfully…