Reformation Sunday
Revelation 14:6-7 & the Te Deum
October 27, 2019

“Live BIG”

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

The moon is a big, beautiful thing, right? Right now we’re at a new moon but two weeks from now it will be again full and big and bright and glorious. The second brightest in the sky. And yet what would the moon be if there wasn’t the sun? We only see the moon because it reflects the light of the sun. What if the moon said, “Look at how big and majestic I am, I don’t need that arrogant sun anymore.” Then the moon would be nothing. It would be a dull gray mass that you and I wouldn’t see or care about. The moon would become small and meaningless without the sun.

So our lives are without God, the eternal Sun and Light. We can live BIG in the name and presence of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Creator of the heavens and earth, reflecting His light and grace and mercy and life. Living in the company of the whole church in heaven and earth. Or we can live small without Him—in a dull, gray, small world with no meaning and no hope.

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