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This weekend is Missions Weekend and ultimately missions is about good news. The nations are in need of good news. God loves the world and His one of a kind Son, Jesus Christ came to bring the nations “in.” Whoever believes in Him will not perish but will have a new and forever quality of life. This good news has been travelling the earth for close to 2,000 years and the message has not diminished or lost its luster in any way.

It’s not the main point of our text for Sunday but it is a part of the Biblical narrative, and it may be a part of your narrative. Are you angry? Maybe you are not throwing things around and cursing, but are you mad about something? Some people believe living with anger gives them an edge in life and makes them better at what they do. I like what Dallas Willard said, “Anything done in anger can be done better in love.”

Wow, that’s a dangerous question in our current culture. My comments before the sermon last week generated more than a little discussion. I’ve learned that some people have their minds made up. Some people are still on the fence. Some people have decided not to vote at all. As I said last week, I think we should vote.

We’re going to take a week off from our study in 1 Samuel. While these Old Testament stories are edifying and challenging to us and we often see the gospel in them, it is possible to miss the most important truth that we can proclaim, the gospel of life. “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.” Life and death are at stake! God’s offer of relationship with Himself is the good news. He is the Source of life and we want life!

I’ll go looking for a tool or some other item and then find something else that is so interesting I’ll forget what I was looking for in the first place! That happened to Saul. He spent three days looking for his father’s donkeys and ended up at a banquet with the preferred cut of meat.