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Rev. Jim Bolton<\/p><\/div>\n

Pastor Jim’s sermon on Sunday August 3 posed the question, “what is awesome?”\u00a0 We throw around that word so much that we allow it to describe almost anything.\u00a0 Could it be that our trivial regard of God’s True AWESOMENESS has led us to regard God in our own limited terms?\u00a0 Could it be that the God who created the universe is actually awesome enough to care about us?\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s the audio recording (from the 11:00 service).\u00a0 You can listen to the sermon while following along below.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sermon-2014-08-03b-What-an-Awesome-God-16kbs-mono.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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The message is from Isaiah 40:10-31.\u00a0 Click below to follow along…
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Isaiah 40<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Isaiah 40:10-41:1 10<\/p>\n

10 Yes, the Sovereign Lord is coming in power. He will rule with a powerful arm. See, he brings his reward with him as he comes.<\/span><\/p>\n

11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will carry the lambs in his arms, holding them close to his heart. He will gently lead the mother sheep with their young. <\/span><\/p>\n

12 Who else has held the oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers?Who else knows the weight of the earth or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale?<\/span><\/p>\n

13 Who is able to advise the Spirit of the Lord? Who knows enough to give him advice or teach him?<\/span><\/p>\n

14 Has the Lord ever needed anyone’s advice? Does he need instruction about what is good? Did someone teach him what is right or show him the path of justice? <\/span><\/p>\n

15 No, for all the nations of the world are but a drop in the bucket. They are nothing more than dust on the scales. He picks up the whole earth as though it were a grain of sand.<\/span><\/p>\n

16 All the wood in Lebanon’s forests and all Lebanon’s animals would not be enough to make a burnt offering worthy of our God.<\/span><\/p>\n

17 The nations of the world are worth nothing to him. In his eyes they count for less than nothing\u2014mere emptiness and froth. <\/span><\/p>\n

18 To whom can you compare God? What image can you find to resemble him?<\/span><\/p>\n

19 Can he be compared to an idol formed in a mold, overlaid with gold, and decorated with silver chains?<\/span><\/p>\n

20 Or if people are too poor for that, they might at least choose wood that won’t decay and a skilled craftsman to carve an image that won’t fall down! <\/span><\/p>\n

21 Haven’t you heard? Don’t you understand? Are you deaf to the words of God\u2014the words he gave before the world began?Are you so ignorant?<\/span><\/p>\n

22 God sits above the circle of the earth. The people below seem like grasshoppers to him! He spreads out the heavens like a curtain and makes his tent from them.<\/span><\/p>\n

23 He judges the great people of the world and brings them all to nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n

24 They hardly get started, barely taking root, when he blows on them and they wither. The wind carries them off like chaff. <\/span><\/p>\n

25 “To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal?” asks the Holy One. <\/span><\/p>\n

26 Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out like an army, one after another, calling each by its name. Because of his great power and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing.<\/span><\/p>\n

27 O Jacob, how can you say the Lord does not see your troubles? O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?<\/span><\/p>\n

28 Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n

29 He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless.<\/span><\/p>\n

30 Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion.<\/span><\/p>\n

31 But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength.They will soar high on wings like eagles.They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.<\/span><\/p>\n

Holy Bible, New Living Translation \u00ae, copyright \u00a9 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.<\/address><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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Awesome!<\/span><\/h3>\n

What is “Awesome”?\u00a0 Things like these?<\/p>\n