BAD NEWS, GOOD NEWS, BEST NEWS

Last Sunday we began a three-part series heading into Easter called "Bad News, Good News. Best News." The first sermon was "Voices and Visions from Hell." My associate, Barry Sellers challenged people with the reality of Hell. It is a place of torment, but the greatest torment is that we are separated from the presence of God eternally. That's clearly Bad News.

This Sunday, March 28, I will be speaking of Heaven. The message is "Into His Nearer Presence." People often think of Heaven as a reward - nice mansion, no more tears, streets of gold, etc. But Heaven is the ultimate place of a relationship initiated on the Cross where we begin to know the unconditional and unending love of God through Jesus Christ. "Now we know in part," says the Apostle Paul. Imagine living where you know God as He knows you and that relationship brings you eternal peace and joy! That's the Good News.

Then on Easter is the Best News "No More Death." Death is defeated by the empty tomb. Christian no longer to live dominated by death. In fact, even as we live now in the land of the dying, we are living the abundant and eternal. How would your life be changed now in you lived by the resurrection truth - "No More Death" ?

Join us at the Church of God of Landisville,171 Church Street in Landisville PA at either 8.15 or 10.45 Sundays. For directions go to our website at www.coglandisville.org