Henry Williams

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

1/ Dudley: "Maybe the biggest impact I'd ever had on anyone's life was a moment that I didn't even remember." Lollipop moment.

2/ We’re not sure what seeking first the kingdom is, but we’re pretty sure our life doesn’t qualify. So we start to devalue our kingdom work.

3/ Betw/ the 1st & 2nd coming, the kingdom is still small, hidden, slow & unimpressive compared to the awe-inspiring flash of the 2nd coming

4/ In God’s big story, everything we do is small, even when it seems big. But we are not small because were part of his kingdom.

5/ All the small things we do are part of something really big.

6/ Most kingdom work is done in ordinary time by ordinary people doing ordinary things.

7/ Most kingdom impact you have is hidden from view, even your view.

8/ Most kingdom work we do outside of ordinary time is small and hidden from the view of most people.

9/ Once you do big, it feels small.

10/ Find the meaning and the joy in the small things or you will never find meaning and joy.

Watch the sermon here.

Here's last weekend's sermon in 10 Tweets:

1/ “You can stay. You gotta go.

2/ Ira Glass, “It’s as if by their status as strangers they have some special insight into who we are.”

3/ “Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.” (Matthew 21:43)

4/ The king would have to supply the wedding garment.

5/ He wants the feast, but only on his own terms. His silence condemns him because he really has no excuse.

6/ The ending s Jesus’ way of saying that the warnings he directed to the religious folks are also warnings for churched folks today.

7/ There will be churched people who say “Yes” to God’s invitation with their lips, but they say “no” to God’s call with their lives.

8/ There are churched people who will be excluded because they fail to produce the fruit of the kingdom.

9/ We are clothed in Christ’s righteousness through repentance and faith.

10/ Doing what God calls us to do and producing the fruit of the kingdom are byproducts of God’s work in us.

You can watch the sermon here.

10 Tweets on “'Lollipop Moments' and the Kingdom of God" (Matthew 13:31-33)