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Jordan Park church of Christ in Huntsville will be hosting a Ladies Lecturship August 22-23. Liz Roberts from Virginia will be leading a study on "Raising Peculiar Children".
All sessions will be at the Jordan Park building.
Menus for choosing a boxed lunch from a local restaurant will be provided Friday night and Saturday morning. The meals will then be delivered to an off-site location for lunch. Those in attendance can also choose to make their own lunch plans.
Ladies, Liz is a wonderful Christian example and a great student of the Bible. Please come if you can! |
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craig hearn from north carolina is at jordan park this week speaking at our series of gospel meetings. he has preached three wonderful sermons and last night's especially stirred me to write this post.
"and one of the elders said to me, "Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals."
And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth."
Revelation 5:5-6 (New American Standard Bible)
it is intriguing to me how in these two verses we see what would seem to be two completely opposite descriptions of our Lord. in verse 5, he is the "Lion that is from the tribe of Judah" and in verse 6 "a Lamb standing, as if slain". how can this be? how can Jesus be both a Lion and a Lamb?
we can then look at romans 11:22 for more insight:
"Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
if we think back to the time of Christ and how the Jews refused to accept Jesus as the Christ the Son of the Living God and their prophesied Messiah, we can look at it like this: the Jews were looking for a "Lion". they wanted this powerful earthly ruler to come and save them from the tyranny of the heathen nations. when Jesus didn't fulfill this hope, they rejected him. they looked for the Lion and missed how he is also a Lamb.
people of today are the opposite. we only see Christ as a Lamb, a docile creature who would never hurt anyone. we forget that He too is a Lion. it is true that God is a merciful and loving God but we often add to this the thought that He wouldn't dare judge us for our actions even though they were sinful. God would never truly condemn us to hell. all you need is love and that covers a multitude of sins.
remember:
Christ is a Lamb in isaiah 53 when he opened not his mouth.
Christ is a Lion to the disciples when he stilled the stormy sea.
Christ is a Lamb as described by John the Baptist in John 1:29
Christ is a Lion when he ran out the moneychangers in John 2: 13-17.
our Savior is both a Lion and a Lamb. we shouldn't focus so much on one description that we completely forget the other one. otherwise we are just as guilty as the Jews of the New Testament who wouldn't accept the Christ because He didn't match their description of who the Messiah should be.
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i posted this in the Christian Announcements forum but wanted to cross-post it here:
Jordan Park church of Christ in Huntsville will be hosting a Ladies Lecturship August 17-18. Liz Roberts from Virginia will be leading a study on the book of Esther.
All sessions will be at the Jordan Park building.
Friday night: 7pm
Saturday:
1st session: 9-10 am
Break: 10-10:30am
2nd session: 10:30 - 11:30 am
Lunch: 11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
3rd session: 1:00-2:00 pm
Break: 2:00-2:30 pm
4th session: 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Menus for choosing a boxed lunch from a local restaurant will be provided Friday night and Saturday morning. The meals will then be delivered to an off-site location for lunch. Those in attendance can also choose to make their own lunch plans.
Ladies, Liz is a wonderful Christian example and a great student of the Bible. Please come if you can! |
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hey gang... goin' private.
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