Presby-Musings

This week we are concluding a short two-part sermon series entitled 30 Days To Live.  The basic premise behind this series is to come face-to-face with what it means to live a full and purposeful life.  The fact that we couched it in kind of morbid terms doesn't mean it's meant to be depressing, however.  I am sure that some of you came in here today kind of dreading what we were going to talk about.  I hope that if you were here last week, though, that you would kind of give those who weren't an encouraging nod.  Let them know that it's all right.  They need to be filled with confidence that they won't walk out of here feeling blue.   BUT... we do want to wrestle with a fairly serious question.  What WOULD you do if you were told you only had 30 days to live?  Would you live with more intensity?  Would you be intentional with every moment that you had?  Of course you would.   So why is it that we are so afraid to live...

This week I am preaching the first of what will be a two-part sermon series entitled 30 Days to Live.  In case you were wondering about the title of the series, it really is based on the very simple, and perhaps slightly morbid idea of what you would do if you were told you had 30 days to live.   I know, I know...  Why preach on something so depressing, right?  You showed up to church today and you were hoping for something uplifting, a message that would fire you up and send you out into the world, ready to charge hell with a squirt gun.   And now that you are here, you're like: "Seriously, Preacher-man?  You're preaching about dying?  Come on!"   Well, to be precise--I'm not preaching on dying, I am preaching on living .   Because not very many of us actually live our lives to the fullest.  It's only when our lives are threatened, or the life of a loved one is threatened that we begin to think about what it means to truly li...