I've been in Texas for the past 10 days taking care of my mom. She is recovering from knee replacement surgery. I spent the 10 days taking care of her, eating too many street tacos, finishing a couple of presidential biographies, and writing future sermons. 

I'm flying home later this afternoon confident that my mom is in a good place. I'm also looking forward to delivering the final message in our I Choose series. 

You can be sure of one thing as you begin to write a new story for your life. When you start to write that new story you're going to have to overcome your fear. The further you go down a new path the bigger the obstacles will become and the more fierce the resistance. Most people stop before they ever get started and give up much too easily. You want a new life then you are going to have to choose faith over fear. What I've discovered is that faith and fear have one thing in common. They both ask us to believe in something that we can't see. I'm going to talk about the Red Sea moments in life. I'm going to talk about a very obscure Biblical figure. I was blown away by what I found out when doing some research. The Bible is really amazing and anything but boring. When God wants to do something big in the world it always starts with some obscure person who chooses faith over fear. It's also how God changes families and churches and neighborhoods.

 

See you Sunday,

David Emery

 

P.S. Lent begins this year on Ash Wednesday, February 14th. Our youth will lead an Ash Wednesday service at 6 p.m. I will begin a six week Lenten series called Thin Places on February 18th. BTW -  I ate Street Tacos three days in a row, and another reason I have to get back to Kentucky soon. You can buy them everywhere and I can't resist them.