| This month Zion’s 30th Anniversary Celebration! Sunday, May 26th 11 a.m. Zion City Church since 1994! |
May is here! This month is always special to us here at Zion. We get to celebrate our mothers as well as our anniversary as a church! This month we celebrate Thirty years of God’s faithfulness to us. Sunday May 26th we are having a special luncheon and a packed Sunday morning service with a very special guest speaker, Pastor Herb Stanley from Cornerstone Church in southern Louisiana. If you can make it, please come and celebrate our father’s faithfulness. Invite friends and family. This is His church, and He is the one we are celebrating!
Last month Maria and I, like the thousands along the path of the eclipse, watched the once in a lifetime phenomenon of the moon completely blocking out the sun. We went outside and experienced all it had to bring. The darkness fell and with it the cooler, much cooler, 10-degree difference in temperature. Maria was rockin the special glasses. I guess you could say between the eclipse and Maria with those glasses on I was torn between what to stare at. I finally gave into the eclipse although I did take a few pictures of Maria in the eclipse glasses. A classic for sure! As we gazed up to the sky and watched the moon slowly move across the sun, I began to feel something familiar in my spirit. Darkness overtook the light and for about three minutes we sat in near darkness. I couldn’t help but think of our buddy Isaiah. In the 9th chapter verse 2 it says, “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined!” We experienced the darkness for a short time but the moon had to eventually give way to the sun. And then once again the warmth and the light of the sun came shining through! So, it is in our lives. Yes, we go through dark times, the loss of a job, the loss of a spouse, being diagnosed with cancer; but those times do not stay for even in death, the Son reigns. Death, where is thy sting? Oh grave where is thy victory? We are more than conquerors through him that loves us. If today you are sitting in darkness, take courage because darkness always must give way to the light. As I look back over the thirty years of pastoring Zion City Church there have been many dark moments we have endured. But I look forward to the next thirty years, should Jesus tarry, I see so much light! And those dark times in the past never stayed not even as long as the eclipse. For our God remains faithful, even if we believe him not yet he cannot deny himself, he abides faithful!
Looking for a pair of sunglasses because our future looks so so bright!
Pastor Rick