Living for the Day of the Lord

   II Peter 3:10-13

I.   What Does the Future Hold? (verses 10-13)

II.  What Kind of People Should We Be? (verses 11-12)

III. How Can We Speed the Coming of the Lord? (verses 12-13)

"Christians need to remember the ultimate, “bottom-line,” purpose of ‘end times’ passages: to make us better Christians in the here and now. Careful study of ‘end times’ passages in the Bible is, of course, appropriate and necessary. And our own human curiosity naturally leads us to speculate about just how and when the events those passage teach will actually take shape in history. But we must not study the ‘end times’ for its own sake or for the gratification of our curiosity. Christians bitten by the ‘end times bug’ usually end up with vision problems - a tunnel vision in which all they see is the ‘the last days.’ We must never forget, as Peter makes clear in verse 11, that biblical eschatology is to stimulate in believers a holy and godly lifestyle. In fact, you will find no passage in the New Testament on the last days that does not have that kind of specific, practical focus." ~ Douglas Moo

The Glory of the Church

Rev. Bruce Brown

October 25, 2020

Psalm 87

I.  The Glory of Zion (verses 1-3)

   II.   The Congregation in Zion (verses 4-6)

  III.   The Joys from Zion (verse 7)

"Everything that makes life worth living comes from membership of Zion.  Everything.  We do not sing that some of what rejoices our hearts comes from what we may be proud of in this life - our citizenship, or education, or career success, or family - and that there is a little room at the end for a measure of joy that we find in belonging to the church of Christ.  No!  All the fountains that feed my life and give me joy come from being a member, by new birth, of the church of Jesus Christ."  ~ Christopher Ash