Don’t waste this year running! God is calling on each and every one of us to use us in the world. Let’s put aside our fears, biases, isms, and scizms and let God use us the way He desires. Join us for worship as we prepare for a Year of Usefulness!
Scriptural Reading
Romans 8:18-21 (New International Version)
Present Suffering and Future Glory
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
Footnotes
- Romans 8:21 Or subjected it in hope. 21 For
Sermonic Text
Jonah 1:1-3 (New International Version)
Jonah Flees From the Lord
1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”
3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.