Pastor Eric Schroeder
Text: 1 Thesalonians 5:16-24
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For anyone who loves Christmas, this coming week might seem like the longest week of the year. We’ve been waiting all year long since last the last Christmas season ended, and there are so many signs all around us reminding us that it’s almost here...but it’s not quite Christmas yet. Just like every child who sees the presents filling up space around the Christmas tree—but can’t open them yet—we have to wait. In a way, the whole life of every Christian is a time of waiting, isn’t it? Now that we have recently come through the season of End Times in our last church year, and we are almost through another Advent season in this new church year, we have had seven or eight weeks in a row now where we have been reminded that Jesus is coming again. So we have talked quite a bit about heaven, and how infinitely and eternally glorious it will be. No more death, or mourning, or crying, or pain… No more sin, no more sadness—every tear will be wiped from our eyes. The more we hear about eternity with Jesus, the more we long for his return. But for now…we have to wait.
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