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Waiting is hard, but God is faithful to provide for us a way to have rest in the waiting - we simply need to trust Him. Waiting is hard, but better to wait restfully in the arms of our Savior than clutching restlessly for answers to questions that are ‘too great and too marvelous" to understand. May we all in our waiting find rest as we “hope in the Lord for this time forth and forever more”

Beloved family, we have two paths to constantly choose through the difficulties we encounter in this fallen world. Thanksgiving or complaints. What will you choose? Let us always overcome complaints with thanksgiving, remembering what the word of God tells us: “Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe…” Hebrews 12:28. May the grace of our God be upon your life!

Brothers and sisters, let us feel a sense of urgency. We mustn’t meander through life. We need to mature and grow in our walk with Jesus, to bear the fruits of the Spirit, to apply the means of grace. People need to hear and believe this gospel and know this Christ; be they spouse, kids, family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, some foreign people in a far-off land.

Death, our last enemy, is not only to be annulled in our resurrection, but death itself will one day be destroyed (1 Corinthians 15:26). In the judgement before the great white throne (Revelation 20:11), Death and Hades will give up all who had died to be judged (v. 13), and then Death itself will be thrown into the lake of fire (v. 14). It will be declared from the throne, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

Will you tell others of the wonderous work that Jesus has done in your life? Will you behold the work of God and respond in joyful worship? Will you give thanks for all He has done for you? May His grace be as precious to you as it was when you first believed.

The church. A foretaste of heaven in the aftertaste of this world. No other gathered place on earth can substitute for this assemblage designed from heaven. It’s a holy household, a fitting flock, a beautiful body. The church – the place where all Christians belong.

I spent most of Mom’s last 72 hours at her bedside. I told Mom everything I wanted to say. Mom was not perfect, but God gave the perfect mom for me. The final lesson my mother taught me is this: “Only one life, ’twill soon be past. Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

May the Lord continue to bless the work of the ministry for decades to come and may the next generation of leaders faithfully toil with all joy for the sake of this local body with the energy our Lord provides. Amen.

The believer’s works are the inevitable fruit of being justified because a justified person has also been born again through this faith union with Christ. However, they do not contribute in any way to the grounds of our being justified since our justification is a legal verdict rendered by God immediately on the basis of His gracious gift of righteousness. Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1, cf. 5:17).

If Christ is your supreme and ever increasing love, then Christ will be that One that you delight to speak of. And so brothers & sisters, let’s be a people that regularly rehearse the glorious gospel of grace (for we are always in need of the gospel), and then we will be a people that eagerly declares this glorious gospel of grace so that more might come to know Him!