When we try to hide our sins what do we hope to accomplish? Do we hope to deceive everyone around us? Ourselves? God? We are not pulling the wool over God’s eyes, so let’s stop trying to. King David gives us a great example of how we can react to sin. Let’s not make some of the same mistakes he did.
Often in life there are obstacles that stand between where we are and where we want to be. Let’s take a leaf out of king David’s book on how he was able to overcame his own literal giants.
Tonight Matthew Higginbotham, our soon-to-be new youth minister, shares his first sermon with us here at Great Oaks, a great study from Luke 7:36-50. In this text, a woman interrupts a meal between Jesus and a Pharisee, provoking responses from both of them. What does it teach us about people, and what does it teach us about Jesus?