A Hard but Good Week at HSBC

This week has been a very hard week for many at HSBC.  They have been at the church every evening preparing for the Easter Program, "A Light in the Darkness".  It has been a joy to watch so many new faces plugging into this year's presentation.   Everyone has work hard and are doing a great job.  

Are there things that could be improved?  Yes!  Here is the deal, I learned this many years ago in my sermon preparation. If whatever we do is made perfect or great in our own strength then where is our need for God.  It is us who did it.  As a preacher, I have literally over prepared,  over structured, and over crafted what I thought was the prefect sermon that was going to bring the masses to repentance.  Those sermons were some of the worst messages that I have every delivered. Why?  It was all on paper and all I had to do was deliver it as written. When we think that we have all the variable managed, God likes to remind us that He alone manages all the variables.  These are sermons that if I would have went into the pulpit like I came out, God could have used the sermon.  

We must not be lazy in our preparation. When we have done all that we can do and we are left with a creaked pot, REMEMBER THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT LIGHT SHINES THROUGH (2 Corinthians 4:4-10).  There is going to be a light that goes out into the darkness by means of this play this weekend.  God is going to do it in such a way that it will leave no guess that it was HE.  I cannot wait to see HIM show up this weekend.

The Easter Program "A Light is the Darkness" happens tonight at 7:00, tomorrow at 5:00 and Sunday Morning at 11am.  Do not miss it and bring a friend.