Hope Of The World

Planning and programming our Sunday services is an exciting and invigorating process.  The PCC Production Team gathers every week for an early morning breakfast meeting to review and plan ahead.  We do our best to listen to God and follow Him to prepare and execute music, teaching and other creative elements that will honor Him, glorify His name, and edify and encourage all who are gathered.

This week has been particularly and unusually challenging; not only from the programming aspect, but in terms of technical issues and music and software and scheduling and a myriad number of other things.  Many people in the PCC community and beyond are struggling with illnesses, anxiety, frustration, fear, depression, exhaustion and other issues.

Often, it is in the midst of our brokenness that God moves most powerfully.  In fact, I would argue that it is only through our darkest times that we truly know the depth of God's grace and love for us.  And so it is only fitting that we gather on Sundays - drifting, limping, running, striding, stumbling - all compelled to come together under the umbrella of Jesus.

Come Sunday, because God has already been at work in us.  In spite of our discomfort - or perhaps because of it - we will worship.  Come.  Bring a friend or a neighbor.  Bring your family.

Bring your brokenness.

Come expecting to hear from God.  Walk through the doors anticipating that you will be changed.  Carry the confidence that a God who calls you to follow him in obedience will be true to his promise to walk with you, to never leave you or forsake you.

Looking forward to Sunday morning...

And they were calling to one another:  "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory." - Isaiah 6.3