Bulletin 07.05.26
There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; they will see His face, and His Name will be on their foreheads. Revelation 22:3–4
Reflection Before The Service
Reflection Before The Service
But what if these stories are not about Sarah, Abraham, Jacob, and Rebekah? What if the protagonist in the drama is God, and the story is about how God faithfully keeps all the promises made to Abraham despite the obstacles the other characters in the story erect in ways that seem to inhibit their fulfillment? Then the message of these texts is not “Be like Abraham, or Sarah, or Jacob! ” but rather “You are like Abraham, or Sarah, or Jacob!” and the glorious good news of the gospel is that God knows exactly how to deal with people like us as He ceaselessly goes about the business of working with Abraham’s or Sarah’s or our own lack of faith, or Jacob ’s or Rebekah’s or our own cunning deception, to keep those promises, transforming us, like Israel’s ancestors, into people of faith.
- Mark A. Throntveit, Preaching from the Book of Genesis
The Call To Worship
The Call To Worship
The Revelation 22.1-4
Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the
tree were for the healing of the nations. There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; they will see His face, and His Name will be on their foreheads.
(Prayer)
Reflection Before The Service
But what if these stories are not about Sarah, Abraham, Jacob, and Rebekah? What if the protagonist in the drama is God, and the story is about how God faithfully keeps all the promises made to Abraham despite the obstacles the other characters in the story erect in ways that seem to inhibit their fulfillment? Then the message of these texts is not “Be like Abraham, or Sarah, or Jacob! ” but rather “You are like Abraham, or Sarah, or Jacob!” and the glorious good news of the gospel is that God knows exactly how to deal with people like us as He ceaselessly goes about the business of working with Abraham’s or Sarah’s or our own lack of faith, or Jacob ’s or Rebekah’s or our own cunning deception, to keep those promises, transforming us, like Israel’s ancestors, into people of faith.
- Mark A. Throntveit, Preaching from the Book of Genesis
The Call To Worship
The Revelation 22.1-4
Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the
tree were for the healing of the nations. There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; they will see His face, and His Name will be on their foreheads.
(Prayer)
05/07/26