Pastor's Blog: "The Main Event"
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So much of life involves preparing ourselves for major experiences. One of the ways we do that is by involving ourselves in preliminary activities that build up to the main event. You go to the movies and you sit through the previews, which gives you time to get your popcorn and coke before the feature film begins. You go to a concert and there are “warm up” acts that prepare your ear for the mainline act that will follow. Sports enthusiasts understand terms like undercards and early rounds, which function as lead-ups to the big attraction.
Sermon Preview: A Strange Entrance
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What was it Shakespeare said? “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances” (As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII). The speech addresses the seven stages of life, with our entrance coming in infancy. But as we all know, life is actually marked by many entrances – entrances into adolescence and young adulthood and senior adulthood – so that every exit becomes an entrance into something else.