Sunday night recap – January 15th, 2012

Another bone-chilling Sunday today. Our Suburban’s thermometer read minus 19 in the church parking lot before the morning service. But, the good news is that it had “warmed up” to a comfortable minus 5 by the end of the evening service! I like the trend, anyway. And the sun blazed forth in all its shining glory this morning – its brilliant rays, and slightly higher place in the sky than a few weeks ago, reminded us that the arctic winter won’t go on forever.

At the morning service I preached from 1 Peter 3:1-7, in which Peter writes about marriage. Wives, he says, are to submit to their husbands and seek the “imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit” (v. 1, 4). And husbands must live with their wives in “an understanding way” and show “honor to the woman as the weaker vessel” (v.7). Peter’s concern is not just that Christians are faithful to these commands so that they may have great marriages, but so that their marriages will glorify Christ in the midst of an unbelieving world. I learned much in studying these passages, and remembered that Robyn and my wedding invitations featured these words from verse 7: “heirs together of the grace of life.”

I preached this evening from Psalm 123, followed by the Lord’s Supper. We had a nice turnout this evening, which is always an encouragement.

Pastor Scott