Sunday Evening Service . . .
Perhaps some of you remember the 70’s folk singer, John Denver. Most people remember him for songs like Rocky Mountain High and Take Me Home, Country Roads. One song he wrote begins :
You fill up my senses,
Like a night in a forest,
Like the mountains in Springtime,
Like a walk in the rain,
Like a storm in the desert,
Like a sleepy blue ocean.
John Denver wrote that song for his wife, Annie. But the song is a tad bittersweet for me since becoming a Christian. I find myself thankful for such poetry put to music, but sad that the songwriter never lifted his gift past earth to his Creator – the Maker of those Rocky Mountains and Country Roads. The same God who inspired ancient songwriters to pen the following:
Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good!
And. . .
As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
So this fall while we’re learning of "The Sweet Life" during morning worship, we’ll be entering into a sermon series for Sunday Evening called: A Feast for the Senses – The God of Sight, Sound, Touch, Taste, and Smell. Together we’ll explore the following:
SEPT 12: Truly Seeing for the First Time – 2 Cor 4:3-6
SEPT 19: Faith Comes by Hearing – Romans 10:10-17
SEPT 26: The Touch of the Master’s Hand – Matthew 8:1-4
OCT 3: The Taste of Sweet Communion – Selected verses from John 6
OCT 10: Broken and Spilled Out – Spreading Everywhere His Fragrance – Selected Scriptures.
I am really looking forward to where God will take me in times of study and preparation and all of us as we allow the Living God to fill up our senses with life –changing truth. So come out and join us as we seek to experience God with all five senses. Services are 7:30 pm in the sanctuary.
Yours in His Service,
Mark
You fill up my senses.
Come fill me again.
