HOUSTON, TX: The three distinct phases of my life with God
HOUSTON, TX: The three distinct phases of my life with God
The following is a sermon preached at the 12th Annual Winter conference of the Anglican Missions in the Americas (AMIA) Morning Worship
By The Rev. Dr. Jack Deere
January 13, 2012
I have come this morning to speak to those of you who have left their buildings and their church home, just as Luke 18:29-30 says. ("I tell you the truth", Jesus said to them. "No one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the Kingdom of God, will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come, eternal life." NIV) You left a church that no longer had a theology, just a government.
You probably never planned on that.
As a youngster I planned to be good but not to be Godly. I planned to get married but not to fall in love. Then I saw Lisa for the first time, sitting in the back seat of a convertible. How could they put that beauty in the back seat? We married a year later and I was and still am madly in love with her.
What I learned over the next 20 years is that God had it all planned out. That which I had not planned for was already under His purview. WE don't plan the turning points in our lives. We don't plan pain.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
The following is a sermon preached at the 12th Annual Winter conference of the Anglican Missions in the Americas (AMIA) Morning Worship
By The Rev. Dr. Jack Deere
January 13, 2012
I have come this morning to speak to those of you who have left their buildings and their church home, just as Luke 18:29-30 says. ("I tell you the truth", Jesus said to them. "No one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the Kingdom of God, will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come, eternal life." NIV) You left a church that no longer had a theology, just a government.You probably never planned on that.
As a youngster I planned to be good but not to be Godly. I planned to get married but not to fall in love. Then I saw Lisa for the first time, sitting in the back seat of a convertible. How could they put that beauty in the back seat? We married a year later and I was and still am madly in love with her.
What I learned over the next 20 years is that God had it all planned out. That which I had not planned for was already under His purview. WE don't plan the turning points in our lives. We don't plan pain.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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