Christians Are Like Tea Bags; You Don’t Know What They Are Made of Until You Put Them in Hot Water
September 3, 2023
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Today’s message is titled “Christians Are Like Tea Bags; You Don’t Know What They Are Made Of Until You Put Them In Hot Water.” Today, Pastor Harold unpacks Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 and helps us understand the philosophy of fatalism and how it deludes our relationship with God.
We look at the Four Big Pillars of Life and how, depending on our faith, we will deal with them when we are put into hot water, and all human beings will experience hot water; there is no avoiding it. If you are alive, you experience #1; we all will experience #4; and if we live long enough, we will experience #2 & #3, and not just for ourselves, but others we love:
1. Birth (Fate Determines)
2. Illness/accidents
3. Aging
4. Death
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- Pastor Harold Long
- Christians Are Like Tea Bags
- Ecclesiastes 3:1-15
- John 14:3
- Revelation 19:6-9
- Accidents
- Aging
- Buddhism
- Death
- ekklesia
- Fatalism
- Four Pillars
- Illness
- King Solomon
- Paganism
- Platonism
- Qoheleth
- Self-reliance
- Son of David
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
When Bad Things Happen
July 10, 2022
- Dr. Lonnie Richardson
- When Bad Things Happen
- 2 Corinthians 1:3-11
- Revelation 21:1-4
- Accidents
- Catastrophic Events
- Death
- Disability
- Disease
- Grace
- It Is What It Is
- Jesus
- Life on Life's Terms
- Mercy
- Pain
- Suffering
- The Circle of Life
- The Wrath of God
- Why Doesn't God Do Something?
- Why God?
- Transformation UMC
Welcome to today’s message, “When Bad Things Happen.” Today, our guest, Dr. Lonnie Richardson, unpacks 2 Corinthians 1:3-11 & Revelation 21:1-4, and we will discover how we are to respond as people of faith when bad things happen.