waiting

Nice work from Kyle last weekend on "waiting"...

As he notes in the opening, most of life is waiting (we're always waiting for something)-- and that waiting is eventually fulfilled, for those who are saved by God's grace, in Heaven.

Toward the front, he has a funny line on speedos-- although not as funny as this graph.

His sermon was, in essence, a character study of David-- a man who waited to become king, but didn't wait when he shouldn't (as with Goliath). Likewise, failure to wait and waiting too long are versions of the usual pair of sins-- commission vs. omission.

The reference to dog vs. cat theology was cute and interesting (around 19:10).

And I loved the quote from Louis Smedes toward the end, but it was too long to write down and I don't hear it on the on-line version of the sermon. Hopefully, he'll send it to me...

UPDATE: "Waiting is our destiny. As creatures who cannot by themselves bring about what they hope for, we wait in the darkness for a flame we cannot light. We wait in fear for a happy ending we cannot write. We wait for a 'not yet' that feels like a 'not ever.' Waiting is the hardest work of hope."