The Rock that Moved: A Living Doxology

Message based on 1 Peter 4:1-11. If your life went the way you wanted it to go, what would the end result be? What is the goal? Peter’s encounter with the risen Lord changed the trajectory of his life. Conscious of time, he proposed that the scattered, suffering, strangers would live the rest of their lives to bring glory to God. What can we do, starting today, to live for God’s greater glory? Quotes:St. Augustine of Hippo:  A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot.Jonathan Edwards:  1. Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence.  4. Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.Henry David Thoreau: You can’t kill time without injuring eternity.Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Friendship is a sheltering tree.T. S.Eliot:  If our love never stretches us, we are not doing it right.Emperor of Rome Julian: The Christian faith has been specially advanced through the loving service rendered to strangers, and through their care for the burial of the dead. It is a scandal that there is not a single one who is a beggar, and that the godless Galileans care not only for their own poor but for ours as well; while those who belong to us look in vain for the help that we should render them.My Journal:  I could be the star of my own story; I could live my life for my own glory and be so empty.  Let me be in your story Lord, let me live for your glory, Lord, so your name is praised.  To discover more messages of hope, go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on X and YouTube @tallowoodbcFollow us on Instagram @tallowood.baptistFollow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist