Our pastor was our worship leader this week as well as preparing the message, so we enjoyed the benefit of the worship service dovetailing with the message. It’s extra special when that happens, in my opinion. Anyway, we thought several of his illustrations and quotes were worth repeating here.

As stated in the last post, the focus was on being known of God; and the key passage of Scripture was Psalms 139. Here is one of his illustrations:

(quote:) An astronomer who was on his way to give a lecture discovered that his seatmate on the airplane was a preacher. Early in the conversation he assured the clergyman that he knew everything about religion he needed to know. The preacher expressed delight and asked where the scientist had studied religion and how much he had read the Bible. “Oh, no,” the astronomer replied, “I’ve never studied theology, and I don’t read the Bible, but I know the Golden Rule, and I figure that’s enough religion for me.” “Well, on that basis,” declared the preacher, “I guess I know all about astronomy..” The scientist scoffed and asked the pastor what he knew about the cosmos. To which the man of the cloth replied gravely, “Twinkle, twinkle little star; how I wonder what you are.”

Pretty funny, Huh? Here is another little story that was included:

A history class was studying the Revolutionary War. They learned that the battle of Saratoga was probably lost because General William Howe chose to remain in Philadelphia. The teacher then asked the class to explain this major British defeat. A voice from the back of the room shouted: “A lack of no Howe!”

That story was followed by the point that, “Too often we struggle with life’s battles because we have a lack of “know how’ about God.”

There is more that I want to share, but my stomach is too upset to continue right now. So this post will have to end with “to be continued”