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This is the scene outside my home office today. It isn't easy working on a sermon when every minute the chance that no one will hear it increases...inch by inch. The snow is coming down hard. We've already cancelled our first meeting. We still have the second meeting (11:30am) tentatively scheduled with a final decision due by 6am tomorrow morning. (You can get the latest updates on our Weather Updates page.) In the meantime, I'm going to finish my sermon and hope for the best. If you live in the area, I hope you're safe and warm and enjoying the beauty of God's creation. Look at that snow and remember that through faith in Jesus that's how pure God has made you. Incredible. "Come now, let us reason together says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow..." (Isaiah 1:18).
Update: We made the call to cancel both services. I'm bummed because I was ready to preach about our need for the Holy Spirit! Oh, well, God knows best. If you're snowed in, I'd encourage you to take time to worship, pray and study God's word as a family. Here are some suggestions.
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It's snowing like crazy here too! hopefully you don't have to cancel your services for this weekend! :/
I just wanted to say that I just finished your book, "I kissed dating goodbye" and God used that book to completely change how i view dating and relationships..just before I picked it up, I had decided not to date until I'm out of high school, and your book helped me SO much! I'm not reading 'boy meets girl'...which I LOVE so far, and "Dug Down Deep" is waiting for me to finish the courtship book so I can read this one!
Thanks again! :)
--Heather--
happened to us last december in seattle. so we did our first ever "Christmas snowcast." we got it out to our people so that they could gather around their computers with coffee and hot chocolate and listen and worship together.
thanks for your ministry. i'm a fellow younger senior pastor of a larger church who has been called to lead a church through the transition after a beloved senior pastor who served for 30 years. you and C.J. have a great model... and I believe that God has blessed us through the leadership transition as well. enjoy the snow (my wife and I lived in DC for 5+ years).
I feel your pain! We're just due south of Boston and are supposed to get hit with 12-18" overnight. Hey, let me take this opportunity to say thank you for your ministry. We don't know each other personally, but I appreciate your ministry, along with C.J.'s, and read your stuff. Keep serving the Lord in the strength that He supplies! Merry Christmas!
Wow, I know what you mean. Here is the UK we have had 1/2 inch of snow last week, and (gasp) they have forecast maybe up to one inch coming in the next day or so. For the UK, that kind of "natural disaster" will shut down most of the national infrastructure and certainly too treacherous to go outside. Couple that with the rank spiritual apathy in this country and it will all add up to a mighty fine excuse for avoiding ANY church attendance.
God bless you Brother, God's purpose may even be to show His sense of humour for you.
If you post it, we will listen. Gather your family in front of a roaring fire, turn on the video camera and give us a fireside talk. Stick it on-line. We will gather our family around a glowing computer screen and watch tomorrow.
Unless we can find a Hummer to borrow, that is the only way we are going to hear your sermon tomorrow.
I live in New Zealand so it makes not difference to me. But perhaps you could do the sermon online via video?? What about deliverying it on facebook or even twittering it line by line??
Hey Josh,
remember the day Spurgeon was converted. Faithfully preach the word.
Heather, I encourage you to read "Boy meets girl" as well - where Josh apologizes for "I kissed dating goodbye"
I wouldn't be surprised if God uses this to teach you something about your need for the Holy Spirit. I bet it'll create shock-waves.
boooya!
But the snow is so beautiful! We here in Missouri can only wish for such a snow fall before Christmas. :) Have a blessed and restful Lord's Day!
Here I thought I was getting away from snowy country and I came back east to more snow than we have at home! Possibly the only event that actually went off as scheduled in all this snow was my brother's wedding in Virginia yesterday. The day certainly did not go as planned, but as the pastor reminded us at the rehearsal, the wedding was a worship service: no matter what else happened, they got married, and we were praising the Lord for that...as well as for all the safety He granted in travels!
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