- Week two of , “The Game of Thrones” series is up on the website HERE, and in iTunes HERE. If you missed a week… catch up. This thing is a bullet train and you need to get on board early because it is harder to catch the further away from the station it gets!
- The actual “game” doesn’t even get started until this chapter (Chapter 2). Chapter 1 sets up the game — it lays out the ground rules so to speak and introduces the whole “life experiment” that Solomon undertakes and the guidelines he set for this epic pursuit of every possible pot of gold under every possible rainbow. Again if you haven’t heard the first two messages make sure you catch them on iTunes — especially the first message as I use it to set the ground rules and lay out the intro for the entire series — sort of like reading the rules on the lid of the Monopoly box game before you actually set it up to play. You could play without reading the rules I’m not sure you’d be playing the game of Monopoly!
- Since the very first man and woman sinned in the garden—the game has been under way. Yet, curiously, next to no one actually knows how to play! The instructions are readily available (most households average at least 10 copies of “the directions”) but they never take the time to familiarize themselves with the book or its author—strange, huh?
- This series – which is actually “a study through the biblical book of Ecclesiastes” — is a great place to start — to get to know God—that is. It also makes this a fantastic series to invite your friends to. Listen gang, I don’t know if there’s ever been a time in my entire life where the world was searching harder for answers to life’s mysteries then right now. Sadly, they nearly always look anywhere and everywhere rather than to the One Who created them! That’s what Romans 1 is all about. Did you do your homework and read it? If so, then you know what’s at stake for our neighbors, friends, co-workers, fellow students and family members who do not know Jesus! Even if you don’t feel quite up to the task of sharing your faith just yet—you ARE up to the task of bringing them with you to Southbrook Church for the Game of Thrones series. The gospel will be presented at least twice in this series so there will be ample opportunity for your loved ones to come home to Jesus! You just need to get them here! So let’s all invite, invite, invite.
- This coming weekend even stands out as perhaps THE BEST one to get people to as we continue in chapter 2 of Ecclesiastes with the message, “The Backwards Throne,” and end with a massive baptism service! These services are always powerful—always a celebration! We need to expose our lost friends and family to the joys of being a part of the family of God. AND, if you have never identified with Christ through baptism—what are you waiting for? Sign up online, HERE (so we can get a somewhat accurate picture of who all will be getting baptized) or just show up on Sunday ready to get dunked for Jesus!
Can’t wait! See you all there!