Pastor's Blog
Pastor’s Blog
March 12, 2010
I am "finishing up" my week in the office. It's Friday! Sermon for Sunday morning is prepared and 'stashed away" in my Bible where it will "germinate," or "cook," until I bring it out late tomorrow night (Sat) and "review it," tune my heart, add any "final touches" to the "meal" I will feed God's people on Sunday morning. It's an awesome and humbling task to "feed the church of God which He (Jesus) has purchased with His own blood." After 35 years of pastoring, I still feel so helpless until I get in the pulpit when God takes over.
It's been a busy week here in little ole Chilhowie. We have gotten some "national attention" lately. Don't know if you want to "Google" YouTube" for Chilhowie or not. You might want to "put some cotton in your ears" because of some of things said about us. I say, "About us," it really didn't happen to ME or any of our people, but we are a community and when something is said, or done, to us, or about us, it affects all of us in the community. I learned a long time ago not to make "general statements" about people, nor places. Nuff said.
On Sunday mornings for a while I've been preaching on the journey of Jesus, from His birth to the cross/resurrection. (I haven't gotten to that yet) You can follow that series on the "Sermon" section of this webpage. I've been fascinated at the "blended family" of Jesus, He really was a quite contemporary family, i.e teenage unwed mother, step-father, you know about that. But He was, as theologians say, "Fully Human and Fully Divine." I agree with that. And we have seen His humanity in the life story of His parents having to move out of the country to keep the "Government" from killing their Son, to "losing Him" at the Festival and finding Him 3 days later "in the Temple." If you've ever LOST a child at a mall, at the grocery store, you can identity with Mary and Joseph.
Last Sunday and this coming Sunday (March 14) we will look again at the 12 year old Jesus and His statement, "I must be about My Father's Business." Last week we said His "Father's Business" was to "reconcile the world to Himself." This Sunday we will look at the "Father's Business" is to "seek and save that which is LOST."
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In His Service.
Bobby W. Dunn