Time to Shine

PASTOR MARK MIKELS - November 16, 2008 "TIME TO SHINE" - Part Six (Seeing Opportunities In The Midst of Calamity) Intro ... In a sense for six weeks now I have preached the same message week after week and that message is this ... "Difficult times, even calamitous times, provide opportunities for certain truths of the Christian Faith to be best demonstrated". And I've also preached a corollary message ... "When those certain truths are clearly demonstrated by followers of Jesus Christ, His Church shines like the brightest of stars on the darkest of nights." We as a nation as well as an entire global community are experiencing and might well be just beginning to experience some exceptionally challenging times - and so as the title of this seven part series declares ... it's "Time To Shine" - it's time for these seven great truths of the Christian Life to bubble to the top and catch the attention of the unbelieving world around us. Truth #1 ..."We Ar...