DOORSTEP OF DESTINY (17 OF 26)
Scripture: Mark 10:17-22
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Doorstep of Destiny (17 of 26)
Series: Moving Through Mark
Donald Cantrell
Mark 10:17-22
I - One's Heartfelt Desire (17)
II - One's Human Dependency (18 - 20)
III - One's Heavy Decision (21)
IV - One's Hellish Decision (22)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''A man that stood on the doorstep of destiny''
$3.00 Worth of God
A couple of years ago, my son, Paul, gave me a small devotional book for Father's Day. The book is entitled $3.00 Worth of God by the Rev. Wilbur E. Rees. It's a small book with some essays or meditations written by the Rev. Rees. The very first one for which the book was titled has always grabbed my attention.
I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don't want enough of Him to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.
Wilber E. Rees - $3.00 Worth of God
Devotional by Jay Therrell
It grabs my attention because it rings all too true for me. I think my own walk with Jesus is often one where I'd like $3.00 worth of Jesus - a pound of the eternal in a paper sack. I want just enough Jesus to make me comfortable, but not so much that I actually have to take a long, hard look at myself in the mirror, see the dark places in my soul, and then lean on the Holy Spirit to transform them.
I wonder if I'm not alone. I also wonder if our churches are partly to blame. It seems in these days that we're constantly trying to lower the bar for followers of Jesus instead of raising it.
The intentions behind lowering the bar are mostly good. We think people are so turned off to churches and Christians (and much of that is our fault), that we fear offending an un-churched or ...
Series: Moving Through Mark
Donald Cantrell
Mark 10:17-22
I - One's Heartfelt Desire (17)
II - One's Human Dependency (18 - 20)
III - One's Heavy Decision (21)
IV - One's Hellish Decision (22)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''A man that stood on the doorstep of destiny''
$3.00 Worth of God
A couple of years ago, my son, Paul, gave me a small devotional book for Father's Day. The book is entitled $3.00 Worth of God by the Rev. Wilbur E. Rees. It's a small book with some essays or meditations written by the Rev. Rees. The very first one for which the book was titled has always grabbed my attention.
I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don't want enough of Him to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.
Wilber E. Rees - $3.00 Worth of God
Devotional by Jay Therrell
It grabs my attention because it rings all too true for me. I think my own walk with Jesus is often one where I'd like $3.00 worth of Jesus - a pound of the eternal in a paper sack. I want just enough Jesus to make me comfortable, but not so much that I actually have to take a long, hard look at myself in the mirror, see the dark places in my soul, and then lean on the Holy Spirit to transform them.
I wonder if I'm not alone. I also wonder if our churches are partly to blame. It seems in these days that we're constantly trying to lower the bar for followers of Jesus instead of raising it.
The intentions behind lowering the bar are mostly good. We think people are so turned off to churches and Christians (and much of that is our fault), that we fear offending an un-churched or ...
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