Our Anchor For The Future

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Summary

Pastor Safrit walks through Hebrews 6:13-20, emphasizing that Jesus serves as our anchor for the future, providing hope and security amid life's storms. He highlights the importance of anchoring our faith in God's promises, the assurance of salvation, and the hope found in Christ. The practical application encourages the congregation to evaluate their spiritual lives and ensure their trust is firmly placed in Jesus, especially as they begin the new year.

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Thank you for singing. Thank you for worshiping with us. If you have a kid that wants to be dismissed to Children's Church, they can be dismissed at this time. We're going to be in Hebrews chapter 6 this morning. Hebrews chapter 6 verses 13 through 20.
And I'll sort of give this morning as I've been praying on where the Lord would have me to go this first Sunday. First Sunday of the year, it's always an exciting time.
You begin to sort of plan out for me where I'm going to be at this year. And definitely I've been praying over that for the last several months of where the Lord has led me. And if you remember, maybe you may not remember, but the end of 2023.
Okay, that was 13 months ago, 12 months ago now. I preached a message on drifting out of Hebrews chapter 2. I used Hebrews chapter 2 and I preached this verse here.
I'll read it for you this morning. And it says, For this reason we must pay attention all the more what we have heard so that we will not drift away. And as I began just meditating and processing what the Lord had led me through over the last couple years, this last year,
my mind came to Hebrews chapter 6 where it talks about our anchor. And how oftentimes we drift because we don't have the proper anchor.
And so this morning we want to look at our anchor for the future and what that looks like. And so Hebrews chapter 6 verses 13 through 20 is what we'll read. And then we'll go through some introductory thoughts as well.
So if you have your Bible, you're willing and able to stand, we'll stand out reading of God's word. The words will also be on the screen for you as well. It says, We laid out, beginning of last year,
the thoughts that we have, some of the mission statement, the core values that the Lord has laid on my heart. And I want to just sort of recap that for a moment just to keep that on the forefront of our mind. This is on your calendar.
I put the core values on there this year. But the mission statement for a church is we exist to preach the word,
to practice hospitality, and to penetrate the darkness in our community. As we think through this, as we think through what this looks like practically, as we ask ourselves, are we doing these three things? It's good for us to evaluate ourselves.
Evaluating Personal and Family Goals
It's good for us to ask ourselves, if you run a business, how did the business do this last year?
If you are like me and you have a family, you want to begin looking at your family and say, what do we want our family to accomplish this year? And what did we do last year with what God has given us?
And so as we, as a church, have these three things laid out for us, we have to ask ourselves, are we preaching the word faithfully? Are we practicing hospitality in our community faithfully?
And are we ultimately trying to penetrate the darkness in our community by our words, actions, and deeds? We have to ask ourselves, are these things in us and through us? And is our church doing these things?
And if it's not, then we need to begin to process and ask ourselves, okay, how can we change or re-evaluate?
It's good to re-evaluate some things every once in a while and ask ourselves these hard questions.
But then we have to ask ourselves, how do we accomplish these things? Which brings us to our core values that we laid out over a process of 12 to 13 weeks last year, which is simply glorifying God, which is the first one. We glorify God.
We glorify God through praise and through prayer. I'm not going to re-preach all of those 12 messages this morning. I just want us to remember some of these things in our mind. How is our prayer life going? How are we glorifying God through our prayer life? Are we being intentional?
I like what Scotty had shared this morning. It was a little thing where it said that if you intentionally pray 12 minutes a day, I think it's for two months, it'll change the concept of your brain because you're pouring great thoughts into your mind.
You're connecting yourself with God. But also through praise. How is our praise?
Are we praising the Lord in a way that is glorifying God in a way that we are seeing him work in every little area of our life?
You see, oftentimes as we go through life, small things happen and we will just say, oh, that was by chance that that happened. When in reality, God is ordaining certain things in our life that we need to bring into evaluation that God brought this into my life for a reason.
It's not a small thing. It's not something that is just here by happenstance, but it's here because God ordained it to be there. Oftentimes, someone will pop in my mind and I'll shoot them a text and I'll just say, hey, how are you doing? How are things in your life today?
And more times than not, someone will respond and say,
I just needed to hear from someone today. I was going through a hard time and 99% of the time, it's because the Lord laid that person on my heart and I reached out to them and God worked in that way. And I want to give God the glory for those things. So we want to glorify God in our actions.
We want to grow together. We want to grow together through our small groups, through our socials, through our Sunday school hour, where we're coming together. We're focusing on the Lord this morning. We're focusing on him in our small groups.
When we come together for our senior lunches or our youth activities, when we get together, we begin to grow in love and fellowship of one another. We also grow in love and fellowship of who the Lord is. So first we glorify God, then we grow together, and then we go and serve.
These are our opportunities and outreaches that avail us as we begin to process in our life of what are these things around us?
As Angel said this morning, this family who had just lost everything through a fire, that's an opportunity for us to reach out to a family that's hurting. For us to say, hey, how can we help?
What are the things that we can do to help in this area of your life? Because this is a difficult time, and we can be a gospel light in that situation through outreach and opportunities that come in our way.
And then the fourth way we do this is by giving generously. We give generously of our time. We give generously of our talents. We give generously of our treasure.
We begin to ask ourselves, what am I giving of my time to the Lord? You see, when Jesus came to his disciples and Jesus called his disciples, he didn't say to his disciples, hey, Peter, I need you to come and follow me on Sunday and for about a couple hours and also on
maybe Wednesday for an hour or so. No, he said, Peter, I want you to come. I want you to forsake everything that you have. I want you to come, and I want you to follow me. He gave up all of his time.
He gave up everything that he had. He gave up his business. He gave up what he was going to inherit from his family in order to be a disciple of Jesus. This morning, church, God is calling us to give in that same way.
He's calling us to give of our time in a way that's not just on a Sunday morning, even though that's important, or a Wednesday night when that's important, but to be intentional every single day of our life, being
intentional as we talked about in Sunday school, as we prepare our minds, as we prepare our hearts for the future of the Lord coming back.
Are we reaching out to those that are around us and giving of our time to them and saying, how can I help you? How can I be there for you? How can I be a person that's going to be a blessing to you through the cause of Christ?
These are the four ways that we've laid out as our core values as a church of how we're going to ultimately process and do the mission of the church, which is to preach the word, to practice hospitality, and to penetrate the darkness in our community.
But oftentimes in our life, if you're like me, you begin to drift away from some of those things. That's why it's important for us to reevaluate these things and to ask ourselves, in our Christian walk, it's easy on January 1st to open to Genesis and begin to read through your Bible reading plan, and then by January
10th, you're already off on your Bible reading plan. It's easy as we begin to, as Terry said, set our New Year's resolutions to begin to say, I'm going to do these 17 things this year.
And I don't know if you know this, but January 10th, which is the second Friday of January, is dedicated as, you can look this up, it's dedicated as the Quitter's Day. Okay?
Because by January 10th, the New Year's resolutions that you made on January 1st were too hard for you to accomplish or you got too far behind that you gave up and you quit. So they have actually called the second Friday of January the Quitter's Day.
That's the day it's called. And oftentimes in our Christian walk, we get to this point where we say, well, I'm just too far behind. I'm too far behind the eight ball, and I'm not going to be able to accomplish these things that Christ has laid out for me.
Drifting in Faith and Community
And we begin to drift further and further and further behind in our own Christian journey. And the same thing can happen for a church.
A church's mission can be out there and can be laid out in a way that's going to be energetic, that's going to be awesome. But in the same way, we can begin to drift as a church. And so we want to realign ourselves.
We want to ask ourselves, how do we keep from drifting in a world that's pulling us away from what God wants us to do? I'm not a fisherman. I don't necessarily enjoy fishing.
It's a lot of quiet and solitude. I could think of about a hundred other things that I would rather do. But my son loves fishing, and so therefore I have to love fishing. And my father-in-law loves fishing, and so oftentimes I will say, hey, Glenn, will you take Brody out fishing?
And I'll just sort of pawn that responsibility off on him. And so he'll take him out in his little bass boat, and they'll go fishing. And he's got all the cameras set up on his boat where he can see the radar underneath. And he's found the different fishing coves.
And he'll go, and he'll drop in. He'll call Brody and FaceTime, like, Brody, look what I caught. And they're all excited. I'm just like, it's fish. Like, I don't understand all that. I don't understand all the excitement around it. But there was a time when I was in Idaho and had the opportunity.
We went on vacation to Oregon with a couple of friends. And they said, hey, do you want to go deep sea fishing? I said, well, I've never really been to the West Coast. I've never really been to the Pacific. And I probably never had the opportunity to go deep sea fishing again.
So sure, why not? Let's do this thing. And so we rented a boat. We rented a chartered boat. We had a guy that let us out. And he said, now, we're going to get to the point where you're no longer going to be able to see land. And I said, OK, what's the big deal?
I don't care about that. And so we get out. And I've been looking at the land and got a couple of my surroundings. And I'm like, OK, we're good.
We're out in the water. We're about to drive. I'm like, when are we going to drop the lines and begin catching? Like, we're just driving forever. And I enjoyed it.
And all of a sudden, we got to the point, and I looked back, and I couldn't see land anymore. And I couldn't get my balance anymore. And I reached over to the side of the boat, and all of the stuff that was inside of me came out.
And I threw up. And he goes, well, I guess we're at a good place to go ahead and drop the lines. And he said, we've got chum in the water, and we're good to go. And so we dropped the anchor.
And out in the middle of this massive ocean, we could not see land anymore. He dropped this little anchor that went down and held us in place. And we dropped our lines in. And that day, we caught four big halibut fish. They were huge.
And we took them back, and we cut them all up. We ate it that night. It was the best fish I've ever had in my entire life. We had caught some crabs that day as well. And it was great stuff.
But this one little anchor held our boat in place while we began to fish, while we began to explore the ocean, while we began to drop in different type of bait that would bring us to this point where
we brought this fish. And it was this one little piece of metal that held our huge boat in its place.
The dictionary says it like this, an anchor is an amazing invention by fishermen and sailors for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
The basic concept of an anchor is a device normally made of metal used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to the wind or the current. An anchor is a simple design. It's very small.
It's typically not a huge thing for a boat. Based on the proportion of the boat, it's very small. But it has a very powerful function. It has a function that is there to prevent the boat from drifting off course or to drifting into another path of another boat. And ultimately, demise happening.
In the same way, we have an anchor for our mission.
Jesus as Our Anchor
As believers, we're encouraged to remain steadfast and committed in our faith through every trial and every storm that comes on our life.
And trust me, there will be trials. There will be storms. There will be tragedies that come in our life. And in those moments, it is the test of time to ask ourselves, what is my anchor lodged to? What is it holding on to? If we're anchored to your will and your hope,
then you can probably guess that you're probably going to fail in that anchor. But if you have an anchor that is lodged and secure in the hope of Jesus, I promise you and I can tell you for certainty in my life that that anchor will not let go.
Jesus will not let go of what is the thing that is holding us secure. One Bible commentator said it like this. The Christian symbol, one of the ancient Christian symbols for safety, security, and hope that is found in the Roman catacombs of the world is an anchor.
As I think through that, as I was preparing the music for this week, as the choir sang in Christ alone, that cornerstone, my mind went to another song. I've anchored my soul in the haven of rest.
I'll sail the wild seas no more. The tempest may sweep over the wild stormy deep, but in Jesus I'm safe evermore.
That wonderful hymn of the haven of rest and how he brings that security to our life.
When life seems crazy, when life seems out of control, when life seems that I can't hold these things together, we have to look back at where our anchor is at and ask ourselves, is Christ out of control? Is there anything too hard for Christ?
And if there's nothing too hard for Christ, then therefore there's nothing too hard in my life that's going to allow my life to be let out of control.
And so what specific hope the author of Hebrews is giving here in chapter 6 verse 19 is of course the answer of Jesus.
And he begins to give us this hope that we should have in no one else.
And I want to give us three basic things out of this passage, and I won't be long this morning. I just want to help remind us what the anchor does in our life. The first is our anchor is the promises of God.
Verses 13 through 17 lays out these promises that God had given the very first children of Israel as he gave to Abraham.
And he said, I'm making you a promise to Abraham. I'm going to swear by no one greater than yourself, and I'm going to give you this inheritance that those that bless you will be blessed, and those that curse you will be cursed.
This Hebrew nation that we know of today as Israel has this blessing upon it, and this same blessing continues on today. As God says that I will bless those that bless you and bless your descendants. God made a promise to him and stayed true to his promises.
I want you to think of a moment in your life where maybe someone made you a promise.
Someone made you a promise that you said, they maybe even said to you, this promise is so secure, you can take it to the bank. Has anyone ever had a promise like that given to them? Maybe you're thinking of maybe a marriage promise or something like that.
When I was around 9 or 10 years old, my dad worked for Hurt Selenies, COSA there in Salisbury. Several people in the church here worked in the same time with my dad, and we rented out the community center at the Hurt Selenies there.
Christmas Eve, we had our Christmas Eve there. They had three massive basketball courts, two or three pool tables, ping pong tables. I mean, it was a child's dream to go there.
We would play, and we'd have our Christmas time, and we'd open our presents, and we'd eat, because it's always good to eat on Christmas and around that time. And I remember playing basketball down there about 8 or 9, 10 years old, and we're shooting free throws.
And I look out the glass doors to my left as we're shooting, and all of a sudden, this wonderful, majestic white stuff began coming out of the sky.
And as I began making my way closer, I realized it was snowing. It wasn't my sister shaking her head outside, but it was snow. And I was like, oh, this is awesome. It's snowing on Christmas Eve. We're going to...
I hope my sister's watching just for that jab that I gave her. It's Christmas Eve. It's snowing.
I wonder if it's going to be a white Christmas for us. And I began talking, and my mom and dad, they're like, man, it's snowing a lot. I'm pretty sure.
And they made this statement, I promise you we're going to have a white Christmas tomorrow. I know. I was excited.
I'd never had a white Christmas before. We had never had this white stuff come down on Christmas Eve. And so it began snowing and harder and harder.
And it actually caused us to leave our family gathering and make it cut short because the snow was accumulating so much.
So we got home, and I went to bed, and I could barely contain the excitement of Christmas Day because I was going to wake up and open the windows, and there was going to be white snow outside and
have a Christmas, a white Christmas like we see on TV.
And I went to sleep, and I woke up the next day. And remembering that promise that my mom and dad gave me that we're going to have a white Christmas, and I opened the window, and all the snow had turned to rain. And there was no white Christmas that day.
And to this day, when it snows in December, I don't forget that promise that was made that we're going to have a white Christmas because I remember that it didn't happen.
The only white Christmas I ever had was when we were in Idaho, and it snowed almost every year in December, and we had a white Christmas. But every single time, my mind brings back to that moment where, as a little child, that disappointment happened that next day when we woke up.
And oftentimes, church, we will relate to humans breaking their promises to God, maybe not fulfilling His promises.
And we say, well, my father figure broke a promise to me. My mother, who was a godly mother, she broke a promise to me. How can I trust this God who's making promises?
God said that He is a promise keeper. You can look all throughout history, all throughout time, all the different prophecies that were made, the different promises that were made. God continues to the end of His day keeping His promises and fulfilling His promises up until this point.
Even so, there's promises that are given that are yet to be fulfilled, but one day will be filled in His time. Hebrews 13, 8 says it like this. It's a great promise that you can write down and you can go to. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. When we anchor our life, when we anchor our soul, when we anchor our hope to Jesus Christ, He's the same.
God as a Promise Keeper
He never changes. He always has been. He always will be. He always is the promise keeper this morning, church.
And when we begin to anchor our life into a greater relationship with Him, as a personal level, when we grow in our relationship with Christ and we grow in our love for who He is and what He's done
for us, we begin to understand that He is the anchor of the promises of what He's going to give us.
But not only do we anchor our life to the promises of God, but we have an anchor for our soul in verse 18.
Verse 18 says, though, that through these two unchangeable things, that which is impossible for God to lie, we fled to the refuge that we might have a strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us. You see, we are able to anchor ourselves to Christ.
We are able to anchor ourselves to who Christ is and the intimate knowledge of who He is and the great prosperity of our soul as we grow closer and closer to Him.
One commentator, Albert Barnes, said it like this, and I can't say it better, so I'm going to read verbatim of what he said, hope accomplishes for the soul the same thing which an anchor does for a ship. It makes it fast and secure.
An anchor preserves a ship when the waves beat and the winds blow. And as long as the anchor holds, so long the ship is safe and the mariner apprehends no danger.
So when the soul of Christians in the tempest and the trials of life, his mind is calm as long as his hope is in heaven is firm and in Christ is firm. And when that gives way, the feeling of all hope is lost.
But we understand that the hope of Christ, the trusting of Christ will never give way.
I read a story this week as I was preparing for this of different ships that had been caught in a storm and there was different hurricanes that had brought up and different situations.
But there was one specifically and it said that an entire town was decimated in southern Florida because of a hurricane that had come through.
Palm trees were laid down, buildings were laid down, and there were these ships that had got a little bit away from the sea, a little bit away from the harbor and had dropped their anchor down.
And it said as the hurricane came in and those winds came in that were going to destroy the land that was about to foresee them,
it said each and every one of those ships that had rested their anchor out in the sea were safe.
All the ones that were tied to the dock, that were tied to some man-made fixture were destroyed by these ships.
And they said that as they began to figure out why they did that, they said it was the one only explanation, that the anchor was so secure in the ground that the winds and the waves didn't harm the boat.
And I often want to bring us back to our mind of how secure is our anchor in Christ.
If all was good, you'll begin to say to yourself, maybe like this, my anchor will hold or I'm not going anywhere because of the hope and the trust that I have and the confidence that I have in Christ. Everything else may fail.
My family may fail. My friends may fail. The financial system of the world may fail, but Christ is firm and Christ is secure because our soul is anchored to Christ.
Re-evaluating Our Souls
This morning, church, we have to ask ourselves, where is our soul at this morning?
As we begin to go into this new year, as we are only five days in, begin to re-evaluate your life and begin to ask yourself, who and what are you trusting in?
Because not only is Christ the promise keeper, not only is our anchor for our soul, but there's also anchor with hope, verses 19 through 20. There's an anchor for hope. It says we have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.
It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain and Jesus has entered there on our behalf as our forerunner because he became the high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
You see, church, I keep up with the news and the events of the world just as much as you do. I see the turmoil.
I see the confusion. I see the division that's around us every single waking day.
Some things that happen that we literally begin to scratch our head and say, how can someone have that thought go through their mind that they would do such a thing? How can someone begin to go through a type of destruction matter that they may go through?
We begin to look at our own culture and the epidemic level of anxiety that runs rapid all across our culture of people in our churches, people in our schools, people in our government offices that struggle with anxiety and
depression in a way that scientists are saying that have never seen this level of anxiety and depression in the world in this moment in time. And we ask ourselves, how can this be? Why is there so much uncertainty?
Family and friends and neighbors that are around us grasping at anything they can that's going to be firm and secure.
And yet everything they hold on to is like sand and water and they think it's going to hold them, but then they open their hand and there's nothing there. It's dissolved away from them. It's like, it's like styrofoam going into acetone and it just disintegrates itself and there's nothing there.
And they begin to lose hope and they begin to lose all sense of security in their life. Hope, when wrongly applied, will leave us worse off than when we began.
When we have a hope in something that is a wrong sense of hope and security and that sense of hope fails, we are worse off than before we even put our hope in that. That's why it's so important that we put our hope this morning, church,
in the things that are going to be secure and firm and steadfast.
As it says in verse 19, we have this anchor for our soul firm and secure.
This one named Christ who goes into the sanctuary before we do. So we don't have to worry about anything. Yes, there's going to be anxiety.
Yes, there's going to be depression. There's going to be times in our life where we don't understand why things are going on, but we have this secure foundation of Christ that is underneath us, that is bolstering our life, that is giving us the courage, I could say, to continue on.
And as I began thinking through this, my mind went to a passage of scripture in Matthew chapter 14, where Jesus is teaching and preaching and wonderful things are happening.
And the disciples are seeing things that they only dreamed of, as I talked about a couple of weeks ago. The disciples are seeing things that they only read about in the Old Testament. They only read about with Moses and Elijah and Elisha.
And it says that in Matthew chapter 14, Jesus in verse 25, Jesus came toward them walking on the sea very early in the morning.
When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified and began to say to one another, is this a ghost? They cried out in fear and immediately Jesus spoke to them, have courage. It is I, do not be afraid.
Can you imagine your moment in life right now? You're on this boat. You don't know what's coming at you. Is it a ghost? Is it a spirit?
Is it some type of demon that you saw Jesus cast out before that's coming to have revenge on you? You don't know what your mind's going through. And Jesus speaks to them.
I almost want to say it's in that calm voice that he spoke when he said, peace be still to the storm.
And he just says, have courage. It is I. Don't be afraid. And Peter answered and said, Lord, if it's you, command me to come to the water. And he said, come.
And he climbed out of the boat. And Peter started walking on water and came toward Jesus. And when he saw the strength of the wind, because Peter was not anchored in Jesus in this moment, he was afraid and began to sink and cry out, Lord, save me.
And immediately Jesus reached out his hand, called a hold of him and said, you have little faith. Why do you doubt?
I'm often reminded that this is us in this story where Jesus looks at us and says, I've provided for you time and time again. I've met your needs when you didn't even know there were needs there. I've given you things that you don't even know that you needed.
Faith in Jesus During Trials
And yet you have no faith when I'm coming to you in this strong, small moment in life. You see, Jesus is our anchor for hope. Jesus is the anchor for our soul. And Jesus always keeps his promise. There's a song that Matt, I forgot his last name, wrote.
And it's called this, Christ the sure and steady anchor.
As Terry comes and plays, I want to just read to you these words, this lyric to the song, because it's so powerful as he takes this passage and he takes other passages like this and he puts them together as a song of encouragement for us.
I don't know about you, but music is a huge part of my life. And as I drive around, as I'm going to hospitals, I'm going to people's houses, I'll listen to podcasts or I'll listen to music and I'll listen to worship songs.
On my way to church in the morning, me and Jade will be in the car and I'll turn on the music and we'll just be worshiping and singing these songs to Jesus as an uplifting part of our life.
This song came on the other day and it says this, Christ the sure and steady anchor.
In the fury of the storm, when the winds of doubt blow through me and my sails have been torn, in the suffering, in the sorrow, when my sinking hopes are few.
Has that been you? I will hold fast to the anchor because it will never be removed. Christ the sure and steady anchor, when the tempest rage and when the temptation claimed the battle and it seems that all the night has won. Deeper still then goes the anchor,
though it just stands accused. I will hold fast to the anchor for it shall never be removed.
Christ the sure and steady anchor through the floods of unbelief, the hopelessness, somehow,
oh my soul, now I lift my eyes toward Calvary. This is the ballast of assurance,
seeing his love forever proved. I will hold fast to the anchor, it shall never be removed. Verse 4, Christ the sure and steady anchor, as we face the wave of death, when these trials give way to glory, as we draw our final breath, we will cross that great horizon,
clouds behind and life secure, and the calm will be the better, for the storm that we endure. Christ the sure and steady salvation, ever faithful, ever true.
We will hold fast to the anchor, and it shall never be removed. Church this morning, just got three questions for you. Where are you at today? Where is your anchor lodged into?
Is it lodged into the sure and steady foundation of Christ when the storms come and the sails have been torn and life seems like there's no end in sight?
And you look down and you see Christ standing there, arms open wide, loving you, waiting for you, caring for you. There's a promise for a Lord.
Maybe there's these promises that the Lord has given throughout Scripture that you need just to find one this year, and that's going to be your promise. To trust in the Lord with all my strength, my soul, my might. That I'm not going to lose that promise that God has given me.
Maybe God has given you a promise this year that you need to trust in Him. Second question I have is, where's your salvation this morning? Are you trusting in yourself, which will ultimately lead to destruction?
Or are you trusting in the Lord? Are we trusting in our own deeds and our own things and the only things that we can do? Are we saying, God, I can only trust in you.
Seeking Forgiveness and Trust
I can't trust in myself. I can't trust in my own good deeds. I'm only going to trust in you.
Maybe this morning that's you and you need to come and seek the Lord in forgiveness. And ultimately, the third question I have is, where's your hope at this morning? Are you hoping in this world that's going to, we know by reading Revelation, that's going to be burned up and put in the ashes?
Or are we hoping in Christ this morning, our only hope in life and death?
Whatever it may be this morning, you respond as you see fit, as the altars are open and as Terry plays. Let us pray.
Lord, we love you. We thank you for what you've done. God, I love you so much. And I pray that you would have your will and way in everything that's done today as we worship you. In your name we pray. Amen.
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