Do you sometimes think about skipping church when your senior pastor isn't preaching and the church will be having a guest preacher? In the past, I sometimes have felt that way, but not at Pacific Coast Church as every "substitute" I've heard has been excellent.
Dr. Richard Mayhue who is the Dean of Masters Seminary (www.tms.edu) preached this last Sunday. The first thing that caught my attention was when he stated that he is invited to numerous churches to preach and in some cases he refuses as they wouldn't be open to his preaching faithfully from the Word. That I considered a strong rebuke.
He spoke on Revelation 1:9-17 and its description of Christ. Nowhere else in the Bible do we get any information about Jesus' physicality - his height, musculature, eye color, or prominent features. But in these verses we see Christ in his glory as our high priest and John doesn't sit down and talk with him, but falls at his feet overcome by his righteousness, his glory, his magnificence. A position that we will all find ourselves in some day, hopefully in thankfulness and adoration, rather than in submission and despair.
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