December 28, 2025

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday December 28TH 2025, 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.

It’s my 392ND #SundayScripture, and my final one of 2025. It’s been a great year for me, and I’ve documented much of it here on my blog. Thank You for being part of my journey through this year. I’m looking forward to seeing what God has in store for me in 2026. May He continue to bless us richly as we look to Him in everything we do and everywhere we go.

9 weeks ago I began transcribing my sermon titled “Apostle & Elder”. I preached it to my second church family on Sunday October 18TH 2020.

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9

Here’s Part 10 (the Conclusion):

John’s concluding words in his 2ND letter are my concluding words to you. John writes:

I have much more to say to you, but I don’t want to do it with paper and ink. For I hope to visit you soon and talk with you face to face. Then our joy will be complete. Greetings from the children of your sister – chosen by God. (1:12-13)

John is tired of writing. He wants to visit. He wants to talk – face to face – just as we are doing right here. He wants to personally visit the chosen lady and her children – the church and its congregation.

You see our joy is not complete – until we meet – corporately as a church body – in fellowship with each other. During those 10 Sundays this past March, April, and May when we didn’t meet here – including on Resurrection Sunday (Easter) – the joy was not complete. Pastor Bob recorded 10 great sermons, and he placed them on Facebook. We were fed and nourished by those messages, but there was no Praise & Worship – led by Ben and Jen. The joy was not complete. We didn’t get to see each other. We didn’t get to share our past week with each other. We didn’t get to pray together. We didn’t get to laugh together. The joy was not complete.

You can’t have a full relationship with Christ by staying at home and not having a relationship with your fellow believers and followers – with your brothers and sisters of your church family. Your joy is not complete.

I can’t say this enough. This is the peak of my week. This is the most anticipated – and most exciting experience of my week. My joy is complete.

And that’s my message to you on this day. Let me put my face mask back on here, so that I can walk to the altar, and talk with you face to face.

[END OF SERMON]

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, a testimony, 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.