This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

Ready For The Day

Today we light the first Advent candle—the candle of hope, the prophecy candle—and we open our Bibles to one of the most sobering and stirring passages in the New Testament: Matthew 24:36–44.

Jesus tells us plainly that He is coming back at an hour we do not expect, and He uses words like "thief" and "flood" and "one taken, one left." If we're honest, those images can make our hearts race a little. But here's the thing—they're meant to wake us up, not scare us to death. They're meant to fill us with holy expectation.

Because Jesus is coming at an hour we do not expect, we live every ordinary day as people who are awake, watchful, and working for His kingdom.

We'll walk through three clear movements in the text:

1. The rock-solid Certainty of His coming

2. The deliberate Uncertainty of the timing

3. The daily Urgency of readiness

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Once again, thanks for joining us in our time of worshiping the Lord through His Word!

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Be Thou My Vision" and "Revive Us Again" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.