Below is a sermon I've written for the folks at Sweet Life, a nursing home/rehab center. God revealed a message that I needed to hear. Maybe you need to hear it, too. Sweet Life 7/14/13 Colossians 1:1-14 Theme: Live Worthy Lives; Be Encouragement to Others Sometimes we just need to hear some good news. Sometimes we need to hear the encouragement. As soon as we wake up in the morning, we are constantly faced with the brokenness of the world around us. Flipping through the pages of the morning newspaper, we read stories of disappointment, defeat, and death. Plane crash in San Francisco kills 3, injures several. Grueling trials of the Zimmerman case. Gun violence in the streets. In our conversations with family and friends, we hear about failed marriages, lost jobs, runaway children. Everyday we hear and see all the broken things in our world. We can easily get caught up in...
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