Christ Community - Shawnee Campus
Romans - September 8 | Shawnee
A Family Caught Up in Mystery - 9, 10:45 AM & ON-DEMAND
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Christ Community Church - Shawnee Campus
13330 W 62nd Terrace, Shawnee, KS 66216, USA
Sunday 7:00 AM
Title: A Family Caught Up in Mystery
Reference: Romans 11:33-36
Speaker: Paul Brandes, PaulB@cckc.church
Reference: Romans 11:33-36
Speaker: Paul Brandes, PaulB@cckc.church
– Living in God’s family means embracing mystery.
– We must wonder at the mysteries already revealed.
– We must wait well for the mysteries yet to be revealed.
– Living in God’s family means embracing mystery.
Farther Along
Farther along we'll know all about it
Farther along we'll understand why
So cheer up my brothers, live in the sunshine
We'll understand this, all by and by
Tempted and tried, I wondered why
The good man dies, the bad man thrives
And Jesus cries because he loves em' both
We're all cast-aways in need of ropes
Hangin' on by the last threads of our hope
In a house of mirrors full of smoke
Confusing illusions I've seen
Farther along we'll know all about it
Farther along we'll understand why…
~ Josh Garrels
Farther along we'll know all about it
Farther along we'll understand why
So cheer up my brothers, live in the sunshine
We'll understand this, all by and by
Tempted and tried, I wondered why
The good man dies, the bad man thrives
And Jesus cries because he loves em' both
We're all cast-aways in need of ropes
Hangin' on by the last threads of our hope
In a house of mirrors full of smoke
Confusing illusions I've seen
Farther along we'll know all about it
Farther along we'll understand why…
~ Josh Garrels
– We must worship God.
– We must worship God, accepting His invitation to go “further up and further in.”
“It was the Unicorn who summed up what everyone was feeling. He stamped his right fore-hoof on the ground and neighed, and then cried: ‘I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this. Bree-hee-hee! Come further up, come further in!” ~ C.S.Lewis, The Last Battle
Then Lucy turned inward again and stood with her back to the wall and looked at the garden. “I see,” she said at last, thoughtfully. “I see now. This garden … is far bigger inside than it was outside.” “Of course, Daughter of Eve,” said the Faun. “The further up and the further in you go, the bigger everything gets. The inside is larger than the outside. ~ C.S.Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
And as Aslan spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before… ~ C.S.Lewis, The Last Battle
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