First Sunday Preach

My first preach on a Sunday morning at Kings...

Assurance_of_Salvation.pdf

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Comfortable Vs Useful

Listening to Tim Keller 'Real Security and the Call of God' (available in his free sermons podcast), one really interesting point was the strong correlation between being useful and being uncomfortable. Usually a position which makes you useful is also one which makes you uncomfortable. If you prioritise comfort and security, through jobs, houses, location, ministry choices and such, you often end up in a place where you're not that useful.

Settled Happiness

"C. S. Lewis said "The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure and merriment He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacle to our return to God.""

Heaven, Randy Alcorn, page 166
Original quote: C. S. Lewis, The Problem Of Pain, 115.