Father, gratitude is much too small a word to express how I feel about all that I was able to accomplish today! May it be to Your glory! Amen!
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Today, the first day of Thanksgiving break, cleaning and cooking, and I’ve been sitting at the computer all day. I’ve worked through Sunday’s sermon, picked out the hymns for the service, and amazingly enough just wrapped up my PowerPoint for the sermon!
I had an illustration to conclude the sermon, and I liked it very much, but I struggled to find a picture to go with it. You’d think a picture of an old woman and young boy sitting on a park bench would be easy to find…but it wasn’t! I found a few with them wearing masks…a couple with them eating ice cream…and one holding cellphones. They weren’t going to work – I really wanted one with them sharing chocolate.
Then I saw one with a boy sharing a Twinkie…actually there were three different shots of the same characters. I was curious and clicked on one of them and it led me to a YouTube video…and it was amazing! It was the entire illustration dramatized, except it involved Twinkies instead of chocolate.
The video is entitled, Eating Twinkies with God. This week’s sermon is from Luke 4:18, and is entitled, HOPE UNEXPECTED – Bringing Good News to The Poor. [Feel free to join us on Beulah UMC’s (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) Facebook page!]
As followers of Christ, we are called to follow His example in reaching out to and meeting the needs of the poor and downtrodden. It’s not just throwing money at them, but it just might be a matter of getting down and dirty. We need to be putting much more effort into making a real difference in our world. Jesus did, and it is our calling to do the same.
This is a pretty short post but if you’d like to hear more join us this Sunday in person or online. It will also be posted on my YouTube – Pastor Thom.
Enjoy Eating Twinkies with God!
Nov 23rd, 2022, Wed, 7:34 pm
