Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday September 22ND 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 weekend (on Friday morning) I got the word to preach the sermon at my longtime home church in Homestead Florida on that Sunday morning. (It was a previously-scheduled visit that coincided with my Pastor’s vacation with his family.)

I preached on God’s “Music & Lyrics”. It was based on Psalm 40:1-3, and it included the following Scripture (in order): Matthew 6:14-15, Luke 23:34, Psalm 118:24, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 + 8:5b-6, Colossians 4:5-6, 1 Peter 3:15-16a, 1 Kings 4:32, Psalm 95:1-3, Ecclesiastes 7:14, Philippians 4:12-13, and Numbers 6:24-26 (Benediction).

It was also based on the current song “Beautiful Life” by Pat Barrett.

Due to unforeseen circumstances – I was without the use of our 3 big flat-screen monitors for my sermon, so my prepared PowerPoint Presentation was rendered useless. In fact – our Praise & Worship consisted of 3 of us singing along to selected songs via Spotify on my cell phone – with the wireless microphone placed at the end of my phone (to project the sound throughout the sanctuary).

My Pastor has some work to do when he returns from vacation – fix the laptop and its connection with the monitors. I’m not as technologically savvy as he is in that area. Electronics confuse me.

Back home here in Sebring Florida my Pastor was absent as well – on his way to a church conference in Indiana. We had a special guest Pastor preach the sermon, and I got to watch that on YouTube once I returned home. (You can watch it here.) Strangely – there were also computer gremlins in action during the service. I think one of the monitors was down, so for Praise & Worship our singers were not on stage. They were singing from the crowd, or as I like to refer to it – “the orchestra section”.

And so it was a unique Sunday morning last week at both of my churches. This morning should be normal, or as normal as God allows it to be. We know that He’s got a sense of humor, and He wants to keep us on our toes – not knowing what’s around the winding curve of His fantastic journey for us. He wants us to have faith in Him in all that He creates for us.

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.