Hey everyone!As mentioned this past Sunday, seven weeks from now we are starting a fall sermon series in a few weeks yet untitled (probably something like “Ask the Pastors” or “Big Questions”) that will address questions from you! Ask us anything on your mind and heart, related to the Bible, Christian theology, the vision of Hiawatha Church, or something else! It can be the simplest of things or the most complex, the broadest or the most specific.
We will try and address as many questions as possible, though we have to reserve the right to not preach on some things that just might not be preach-able.
There’s a bowl and slips of paper at the front of the sanctuary that you can use to get us your questions (especially if you want it to remain anonymous), or just email one of us, or even use this blog to post it. Overall, we would like to get at least 6 solid questions by the end of September, but we’re hoping to get enough to take this series all the way to Christmas! We need your help! Send those questions our way!
We’re excited for this and hope it presents an opportunity for us to address some of the big questions of Hiawatha, to worshipful ends!
Have a great week Hiawatha! Remember our Lord this week, who promised the cross from afar through the prophet Hosea in saying, "And in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' it shall be said to them, 'Children of the living God.'" (1:10b)
Chris
3 comments:
Why do we believe the Bible is true?
How did we choose which books were going to be in the Bible?
How do we know who the authors were when some of the books didn't say who the author was?
Why did we (protestants) change the Bible from the Catholics to the Bible we have now?
If the church, believing to be led by the Holy Spirit, choose certain books and believed them to also be inspired and used them for hundreds of years, why did we get rid of them?
Great questions! We'll be sure to preach on these!
Chris and Mike,
This is a question I have been struggling with for years both spiritually and intellectually...
Mathew 6:25-33
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
How can this be true as we see 25,000 children die each day from hunger? Are we then to believe that these children just weren't believers, thus this promise didn't apply? I can't seem to believe that none of these children, or even the hundreds of thousands of men and women who are starving for that matter, are not "seeking the kingdom of God". I agree life is more important than food and drink (v.25) but why are these things (food, drink, clothes) being added to them by God if they're seeking him? Is the answer that this is God's ideal idea but since we're in a fallen world of spiritual warfare, God's is handcuffed?
I could go on but i think you get what I'm trying to say. Let me know if you would like some clarification.
-spencer
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