- Psalm 32
- Luke 15:1-32
The Hymns this week are:
- 559 Come O Fount of Every Blessing
- 227 For the Fruit of All Creation
- 266 Amazing Grace
- 410 This Day God Gives Me
The Sermon title is: Get Found! Join the Party!"
Early Thoughts: Have you ever been lost? Was it an accident or on purpose? WHat happened at the end of the story??
Robert Fulghum, in a story in one of his books, suggests that sometimes we get lost on purpose -- only we call it hiding. ANd then we sometimes hide so well that we get mad when people seem to stop looking for us. Fulghum also suggests that we try the same thing with GOd.
But of course the witness of Faith and of Scripture is that God doesn't stopp looking. Or GOd never stops waiting for us to "come to our selves" and decide to stop being lost/hiding. And then there is a party! There is always a party!
So maybe we who sometimes feel lost, adrift, wandering aimlessly, need to all our selves to get found? Maybe we who sometimes get really good at playing hide and seek need to "accidentally" let our arm poke out from behind the bush? ANd then we can join the party too!
--Gord
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