A few weeks ago I once again received a call to come back to Park Hill Baptist Church.  This church asked me to fill in the pulpit again as they continued the search for an Interim Pastor and eventually a new Senior Pastor.  Much like last time I found myself not feeling comfortable with any of the subjects that came to mind for to preach.  You see, for me, if I am going into an environment I have never been to before, and possibly will not return to, I try to prayerfully seek a subject that the Spirit leads me to say, and this time it was a doozy.  Once again, I traveled back to my pastoral study (aka BlackDog Coffeehouse) and prayed until the Father answered.  This sermon was for me and as I soon found out for many people in the attending audience.  I pray that it is half of the blessing it was to me in preparing it.  Maybe this will give you an idea of where I am going with this sermon:

“Life is not fair. Good people have to die early. There are people that waste money like water, and there are other people who struggle to pay for their parents hospital bills. There are people that spend thousands of dollars on a vacation, and there are other people working three jobs to make ends meet. The funny part is people that spent thousands of dollars on vacation wouldn’t pay for their children’s tuition, and people that working three jobs wants to pay for their children’s tuition. How sad…Life is not fair. And it never will be. What’s the point of life anyway? See the injustice and then you die, painfully.” 

Below you will find both audio and video versions of the sermon “Patience in the fires of life” (Malachi 2:17 – 3:7a).  Please enjoy!

Audio:

[audio https://somajc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/patience-in-the-fires-of-life-malachi-2_17-3_7a.mp3]

Video:

Video: Poor audio quality

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/38177824]