Message based on Malachi 1:1-14.
In this episode titled "Honoring our Father with our Very Best," Pastor Duane Brooks discusses the importance of giving God our best in worship, relationships, and stewardship. He shares personal experiences and biblical stories to highlight the significance of offering sacrificial worship and living out our faith wholeheartedly. God is worth our utmost devotion and cared enough to send his very best, Jesus Christ. By application we need to honor and respect God as a Father and Master, and to seek His grace through genuine and sacrificial worship.
Quotes:
Alistair Begg: the ministers who have encouraged their churches most are the ones who talk most about the love of God.
Sallie Chesham in Wind Chimes:
When He comes
At midnight,
He does not
Ask a tree;
A creche,
A star
A candle—
Only me.
Christina Rosetti: In the Bleak Midwinter:
What can I give Him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart.
Brennan Manning: The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today
Is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips
Then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.
That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
Time Stamps
[00:08:05] God speaks through prophets, foretelling and forth-telling.
[00:10:44] "Burden of the Lord: Give God your best"
[00:14:47] God's love shown through Jacob, Esau, and the cross.
[00:22:05] Worship is sacrifice; Jesus is worth it.
[00:26:09] God is worthy of our worship.
[00:30:28] Facebook shows how Aden's obedience made God great. Worth it: Brennan Manning on Christian hypocrisy. Worship: God sent his best to save mankind.
[00:31:41] God's love demands our soul, all. Worship sincerely.
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