Henry Williams

Here's last weekend's sermon in 10 tweets.

1/ Making a selfish superhero: The people of God fail to be the people of God.

2/ The Israelites bind their rescuer for acting like a rescuer.

3/ When the people of God fail to live distinctive and devoted lives for God, they fail to be the people of God.

4/ Making a selfish superhero: Parents choose religion over a relationship with God.

5/ Religion without a relationship with God always becomes about manipulation. I do for God; he does for me.

6/ Israel is called first to love God. Relationship first, then the rules.

7/ Making a selfish superhero: The hero is wrong-sighted.

8/ She's wrong in God's eyes, but she is right in my eyes.

9/ What is evil in the sight of God becomes what is right in their own eyes.

10/ There's good news for you if you feel the weight of your guilt. If you redefine wrong as good, the good news will be bad for you.

Here are 10 tweets from last weekend's sermon in our "The Promised Land" series through Joshua and Judges:

1/ If we fail to understand the problem, we are doomed to repeat it. We won't grow.

2/ There is a kind of judgement that is merciful & full of grace. There is a kind of non-judgment that can only come from hate or indifference.

3/ Sometimes we have to wade the judgment (or consequences) before we reach the mercy of God.

4/ Gideon's use of a "fleece" is not presented as an example to be followed.

5/ Gideon will become what he currently is not because of God's presence with him, not his inherent valor.

6/ God sees who you will become because of who he is shaping you to be.

7/ Beware of success becoming your snare. Gideon forgot the lesson of the 300.

8/ The odds are never against you when you simply do what God says.to do.

9/ We are fools when we fail to see the danger lurking in success.

10/ Tim Keller: "We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed."

10 Tweets on "The Making of a Selfish Superhero" (Judges 13:1-14:3)