Sermon excerpts from Sunday, January 25, 2015 Last week I told you there were two topics that people don’t want to hear. One was evangelism. We discussed that last week. This week we are going to look at that other subject – Stewardship. Or for today message, using your talents as God desires. God came to a man named Jonah and told him to go to Nineveh, a wicked city, and “preach against it because its wickedness has come up before me.” In other words, his assigned task was to proclaim God’s judgment on Nineveh’s sins. But Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh. Nineveh was the capital of Assyria, the historic enemy of Israel. In the eighth and seventh centuries B.C., the Assyrians plundered Palestine, looted and burned its cities and deported its inhabitants. In 722-721 B.C., it was Assyria that destroyed the Northern Kingdom. Just like most of us, Jonah had his reasons for not wanting to use his talents as God wanted. We give all kinds of excuses, too poor, too ol
There is joy in this journey we call life. Sometimes it may be hard to find, but if we look hard, it is there. We can not let the storms of life steal the joy of life.