"This Sunday is Confirmation Sunday. Fifteen of our youth, who have been meeting regularly with Sam, will be joining our church. It will be my privilege to preach for the services.
The title of the sermon will be: "The 8th Wonder of the World - The Gap", and will be based on five Scriptures:
Genesis 1:26-27, Matthew 1:18-23, Luke 2:41-52, Matthew 3:13-17 and Matthew 4:18-22.
What we discover in these Scriptures is a Gap...a Gap of history from when Jesus was 12 years of age until he began his ministry at age 30. We know so little of what happened to him after he left the Temple in Jerusalem and went with his parents to live in Nazareth. We can only imagine how he "grew in years, in wisdom and in favor with others" during those
18 years.
The question for all of us, and especially for the 15 Confirmands, is "how do we gain wisdom?"....."how did Jesus gain wisdom?" My best guess is wisdom comes from experiences.....in relationships, with discovering something about ourselves we did not know was tucked deeply inside our souls, and in learning to love ourselves in the good times and the bad.
Sunday will be a good time to explore The Gap....those years we know so little about, and those years that are some of the most important in our lives.
I look forward to seeing you this Sunday. It can be a time to re-affirm our faith along with 15 youth."
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