John 20: 16-18
Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She
turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means Teacher).
Jesus said to her, "Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet
ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am
ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' " Mary
Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord";
and she told them that he had said these things to her
The army of Israel looked at Goliath through the eyes of man and said he's too big to beat. David looked at him through the eyes of God and said he's too big to miss. by Wally Carter
Reverend Robert Schuller graduated from Calvin College and
Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan and went to California to start a
church. It was during the 1950s when so many people from the Midwest went to
California. Schuller loaded his books in his station wagon with his
wife and small children and drove around until he found a place to
start a congregation. It was an unconventional spot – in a drive-in
movie theater. He started preaching on Sunday mornings from a portable pulpit erected in the
parking lot and his congregation came in casual clothes and sat in
their cars picking up the sermon over the portable speakers provided by
the theater. Robert Schuller built his parking lot church and later erected a church building to go with it. church leaders continued to say he built in the worst possible place
for a church since it was surrounded by freeways and almost in the
shadow of Disneyland. What seemed impossible, God made possible for Dr.
Schuller.
A greater impossibility: that a virgin would conceive and bear a child.
This contradicts all the laws of nature, but God set up those laws and
is able to use them as God wills. Once in all human history, the law
of God was broken by God so that God's Son might come into the world.
We need faith. What seems impossible is not so with God – with God there are unlimited
possibilities and all we need is the faith to accept and receive what
God has to offer. Faith in Jesus Christ is the greatest impossibility, yet it comes if we open our hearts and minds to receive it.
God has many blessings in store for us as individual people and for
this congregation. If we look to Jesus, each one of us, and believe in
Jesus, miracles can happen. We can change. We can become the people God
wants us to be. We can reach out to others with the wonderful message
of God's love in Christ. God can turn what seems impossible into
wonderful possibilities for this congregation, for me, for you.
Blessings galore can be ours with faith in Jesus. FOR WITH GOD NOTHING
IS IMPOSSIBLE. Amen.
Excepts from James Kegel serman.
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