When we are wrapped up in our own stuff we take for granted what God is able to do. What impact do we and our actions have on those who God is seeking to reach? This is Part 4 of our New Year sermon series You Can’t Run From God “Who Am I Keeping From God?”
Parks Chapel AME Church, San Fernando is led by Reverend Kirkpatrick Tyler, Sr. Pastor. Rev. Tyler is a dynamic faith-based leader who focuses on youth empowerment and community building.
Our Minister of Music is the renowned critically acclaimed Andrae Alexander. He leads our gospel choir.
Scriptural Reading
Philippians 3:10-12 (New International Version)
10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 Or Christ, that person is a new creation.
Sermonic Text
Jonah 3:6-9 (New International Version)
6 When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. 7 This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh:
“By the decree of the king and his nobles:
Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink. 8 But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. 9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”
