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OUR CALL TO SERVE
WE ARE LIVING WORDS OF GOD
WE ARE CALLED TO BE THE CHRIST
“The Word which proceeds from the mouth of God shall not return Empty.” From Isaiah 55:10-11.
It is my personal belief that God calls each of us while we are in the womb to serve God. In calling our names in the womb, we become living words of God intended to do God’s work in our world.
And what is the work of God?
“God has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you, but to do Justice and to do Loving Kindness, and to Walk Humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8
It is up to us. We have the power to do good or evil. What will you choose to do? The world is in our hands.
Paul David Robinson
Dear Reader,I've been writing stories and poems for sixty years. I have a closet full of rejections and this year I decided to e-pub.The first novel I chose for this is dedicated to my wife, Carolyn. I wrote it in 1998. It is entitled: Summer. It is about pain and suffering, the difficult choices people face, and how love can overcome anything.As a pastor and theologian, I do not separate the sacred and the profane. The difference is in the human mind and not in life itself, just as evil is in the human mind and comes out of the choices people make and not from the devil who made me do it. The devil has nothing to do with it. We are the ones who choose to do evil or good. The whole world is in our hands. Enjoy the books.Paul David RobinsonReverend Paul David Robinson,BA, MDiv, Pastor, Retiredhttps://www.pauldavidrobinson.comhttps://www.pauldavidrobinson.com/blog/
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Our Call to Serve - Paul David Robinson
Our Call to Serve
By
Paul David Robinson
(10,597 words)
Cover Design by Katrina Joyner
Copyright 2011, 2016 Paul David Robinson
The front cover is entitled:
"Embrace the Universe and find your Purpose in Life."
ISBN-13: 9781370393350
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From the Back Cover
OUR CALL TO SERVE
WE ARE LIVING WORDS OF GOD
WE ARE CALLED TO BE THE CHRIST
The Word which proceeds from the mouth of God shall not return Empty.
From Isaiah 55:10-11.
It is my personal belief that God calls each of us while we are in the womb to serve God. In calling our names in the womb, we become living words of God intended to do God’s work in our world.
And what is the work of God?
God has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you, but to do Justice and to do Loving Kindness, and to Walk Humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
It is up to us. We have the power to do good or evil. What will you choose to do? The world is in our hands.
Paul David Robinson
October 5, 2016
[Please note: Footnotes are in brackets and numbered. They are at the end of the book.
In addition, I capitalize the first letter in Words I want to Emphasize when I write
SERMONS. And I use all capitals for very important words I want to emphasize.]
FOREWORD
This book shares with you a series of three sermons that I preached at the First United Methodist Church of Flat Rock Michigan in 2011:
January 2, 2011:
OUR CALL TO SERVE
February 20, 2011:
WE ARE LIVING WORDS OF GOD
June 19, 2011
WE ARE CALLED TO BE THE CHRIST
Paul David Robinson
September 28, 2016
If you like this book let me know. Visit my website and take the time to like me on Facebook. If you wish, you can listen to these three sermons and some other things at my website.
This book is also available in paperback.
https://www.pauldavidrobinson.com/
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Our Call to Serve
From the Back Cover
Foreword
Call to Celebration
Sermon: Our Call to Serve
The Way of the Christ (painting)
Sermon: We are Living Words of God
Isaiah 55: 10-11 (painting)
Sermon: We are Called to be the Christ
Gethsemane: Thy Will Be Done (painting)
Postscript
The Sadist (painting)
Footnotes
Dear Reader
* Call to Celebration: From: Micah 6:6-8 and Mark 12:28-34
Leader: With what shall we come before the LORD, and worship God on high?
PEOPLE: HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS