SECRETS, MYSTERIES, AND REVELATIONS AT EPHESUS (8 OF 15)
Scripture: Ephesians 3:1-13
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Secrets, Mysteries, and Revelations at Ephesus (8 of 15)
Series: Ephesians
Donald Cantrell
Ephesians 3:1-13
I - The Prisoner and his Gentile Ministry (1)
II - The Pioneer and his Graceful Mystery (2 - 6)
III - The Preacher and his Glorious Methodology (7 - 13)
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Value Is In The Eye of The Beholder
So if the kingdom of heaven is so valuable, why doesn't everybody do everything they can to be a part of it? I think it's because value is often in the eye of the beholder. What has value and what doesn't is really up to personal interpretation. What some people deem valuable has no value at all to others.
Several years ago I used to heat our house with wood. Every fall I would go out and cut wood with my friend Roger Raether and Bob Bosma. I never liked cutting wood because it was a lot of back breaking work but I liked the price. It was free except for the labor so we would take a Saturday here and there in the fall to cut wood and pile it up for the winter.
In addition to cutting wood I used to get the wood scraps from a store called ''The Wooden Bird.'' They make beautiful hand carved bird decoys and animal decoys out of wood. Every decoy costs from 50 to 250 bucks and they are really nice decorative pieces to put on the mantle. Their shop used to be right here in St. Boni so every couple of weeks I would stop in and pick up their leftover wood scraps to burn in my wood burner.
Right before Thanksgiving I stopped in to pick up a load of scraps. I walked in the front door and told them I was there to pick up the wood. The man wheeled out two bins like usual to the loading doors and helped me load them in the truck. Usually the wood was just chunks of pine but this time they looked like decoys. I asked him if he was sure that he was giving me the right wood because they were unpainted decoys. I noticed that they had a few cracks in them so I figured they were throwing them a ...
Series: Ephesians
Donald Cantrell
Ephesians 3:1-13
I - The Prisoner and his Gentile Ministry (1)
II - The Pioneer and his Graceful Mystery (2 - 6)
III - The Preacher and his Glorious Methodology (7 - 13)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Value Is In The Eye of The Beholder
So if the kingdom of heaven is so valuable, why doesn't everybody do everything they can to be a part of it? I think it's because value is often in the eye of the beholder. What has value and what doesn't is really up to personal interpretation. What some people deem valuable has no value at all to others.
Several years ago I used to heat our house with wood. Every fall I would go out and cut wood with my friend Roger Raether and Bob Bosma. I never liked cutting wood because it was a lot of back breaking work but I liked the price. It was free except for the labor so we would take a Saturday here and there in the fall to cut wood and pile it up for the winter.
In addition to cutting wood I used to get the wood scraps from a store called ''The Wooden Bird.'' They make beautiful hand carved bird decoys and animal decoys out of wood. Every decoy costs from 50 to 250 bucks and they are really nice decorative pieces to put on the mantle. Their shop used to be right here in St. Boni so every couple of weeks I would stop in and pick up their leftover wood scraps to burn in my wood burner.
Right before Thanksgiving I stopped in to pick up a load of scraps. I walked in the front door and told them I was there to pick up the wood. The man wheeled out two bins like usual to the loading doors and helped me load them in the truck. Usually the wood was just chunks of pine but this time they looked like decoys. I asked him if he was sure that he was giving me the right wood because they were unpainted decoys. I noticed that they had a few cracks in them so I figured they were throwing them a ...
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