Our prayer is that you were blessed by today's message. If you would like more copies of this message, you can contact us by calling 951-781-8174. That's 951-781-8174. If you would like to email us, please use Csbible@hotmail.com.
That's CSbible@hotmail.com. May God bless you. Well, good morning to all of you. For our time of study in the word this morning, I want to invite you guys to turn in your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 12.
Hebrews chapter, 12, and what we're going to do, this morning is we're going to be looking at verses 1 and two, somewhat devotionally, And I'll explain to you in a moment how this message materialized. but next Sunday, the plan is that we'll reenter our study of the book of Ephesians and we'll be coming to Ephesians chapter 6, verses 1 through 4. And so we're going to be talking to children, next week and also, to parents and continue to focus on this theme, at least through next Sunday on parenting and we've benefited much from what we have learned over the course of this month on the subject of, of child rearing. But today, it just felt right to depart from that.
This is New Year's Eve. And, if you're anything like me on a day like today, on a week like this week, you, you spend time reflecting upon the, the previous year. And, you look back and you're grateful for God's blessings and you give thanks to him for those blessings. At the same time, you look back with, a measure of dismay and, even discouragement as you see how pockmarked and punctuated the previous year has been with many, many failures, sins committed, And, things that, you felt like the Lord wanted you to do that you did not do, spiritual disciplines, not practiced the way that they should have been, practiced....