Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday August 18TH 2024, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us celebrate this great new day of believing, following, trusting, loving, and being more like our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ. Let us love our neighbor as ourself.

Last #SundayScripture I finished posting the full transcription of my Jude message series consisting of two sermons – “Jude & Judgment” (Verses 1-11), and “Jude & Jury” (Verses 12-25). I preached them to my Homestead Florida church family on November 26TH 2023 and December 03RD 2023 respectively. Links are provided for Parts 1 to 8 of “Jude & Judgment” (Sermon 56) and Parts 1 to 9 of “Jude & Jury” (Sermon 57) over on my SERMONS page.

It was in May of 2023 that I first announced in here that I had begun writing my sermon on Jude. It eventually became two sermons, and I was blessed to preach those sermons on back-to-back Sundays after Thanksgiving. (It was actually the first 2 of 4 consecutive Sundays that I preached at my longtime home church in Homestead Florida.)

I enjoyed studying Jude, and then I prayed on how to effectively preach on Jude. I wrote, enhanced, and rehearsed the sermons, and then I preached them. And then I got to preach them again in here over the past 4 months.

As a bivocational Assistant Pastor of a small church from 2016 to 2024 I was blessed to preach from the pulpit 60 times over the past 8 years. So I had plenty of time to prepare my sermons. Some took a few weeks, and some took several months. All were guided and directed by God and based on His Truth. I preached them when I was called upon to do so. Many were preached with my Lead Pastor physically there, and some were preached while filling-in for him during his absence.

I continue to write sermons that I hope to preach at my longtime home-away-from-home church. My 61ST sermon (“Music & Lyrics”) is done (for now), and I’m currently working on # 62 based on King Solomon.

Here in Sebring – I have a new home church – Highlands Community Church. I’ve been part of the church body for almost a year now. Much like my first year at my former church 9 years ago – I’m in a season of rest from Pastoral ministries. I’m loving our Sunday morning services. I’m enjoying formal Bible Study with my Pastor and 20 brothers and sisters every Friday night. Just recently I’ve immersed myself into “Men’s Ministry” every other Tuesday night at the church where about a dozen brothers (Pastor included) break bread (eat food), and we engage in current-event-type conversations that wouldn’t normally be discussed as part of our Sunday morning services.

After 4 months of presenting 2 sermons in here – I plan to spend the next 4 months (probably the rest of the year) just writing about my ministry and how I feel about certain things related to ministry and the church. I’ll also write about some of the Scripture that we’re learning on Friday nights and Sunday mornings at my church. It’s a new season here on #SundayScripture, and I’m looking forward to where God leads me.

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, or just me writing about the events of the past week. Hopefully it encourages you and inspires you to seek the Lord, and get closer to Him with each new day.

If you wish to learn more about the God I know then stay tuned to #SundayScripture. The best is yet to come !

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and may:

The LORD bless you, and keep you.
The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN.