Jesus REVEALED: ”Here Am I, Send Me”

2025-02-24

February 23, 2025 Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker “God reveals himself, that is, in creation and in Christ, in ways we can see and hear and touch and taste, in place and person. Beauty is the term we apply to these hints of transcendence, these perceptions that there is more going on here than we can account for. And that is how we come to identify as apostles of the gospel the men and women and, yes, children, who use words and images and sounds and textures to wake us up to beauty latent and implicit all around us.”“Gratitude bestows revere...

February 23, 2025

Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

“God reveals himself, that is, in creation and in Christ, in ways we can see and hear and touch and taste, in place and person. Beauty is the term we apply to these hints of transcendence, these perceptions that there is more going on here than we can account for. And that is how we come to identify as apostles of the gospel the men and women and, yes, children, who use words and images and sounds and textures to wake us up to beauty latent and implicit all around us.”“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” -Eugene Peterson

"...to think that creation resulted by accident is like thinking that Webster's unabridged dictionary resulted from an explosion in a print shop" -Albert Einstein

Jesus reveals himself through a personal ENCOUNTER...

Isaiah 6:1-4

Jeremiah 4:1-10

"Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so." -John Stott

which EVOKES a response… (

Isaiah 6:5-7

“Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.” -Peter Kreeft

and ENCOURAGES a decision to follow Him.

Isaiah 6:8

“Run to and fro everywhere, holy fires, beautiful fires; for you are the light of the world, nor are you put under a bushel. He whom you cleave unto is exalted and has exalted you. Run to and fro and be known unto all nations.” -Augustine

“One thing I have observed in all my years of ministry is that the most effective and important aspects of evangelism usually take place on an individual, personal level. Most people do not come to Christ as an immediate response to a sermon they hear in a crowded setting. They come to Christ because of the influence of an individual.” -John MacArthur

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