Literature Device Used - Emphasis

Today's sermon did just that. As it was Father's Day Sunday, we started service about ten to fifteen minutes late. No segment of worship or the sermon was cut short to ensure that we ended on time. To make things -in a way- worse, the sermon was given by a man from another church, so he was pretty oblivious to the fact that he overshot his sermon by a way lot. In the end, we ended twenty minutes late. A disaster, as I was having really bad cramps, so bad every month that I think that I have a malfunction in my body. It seems as though my appendix is on my left side of the body instead of the right and I was having a very bad case of appendix.

We were dealing with Isaiah chapters 20 to 27. Only the preacher took it one step further to include Isaiah 13 to 27. There was this whole thing going on, saying that to cover such a range would require a sermon 3 hours longer. I think that once I finish the four gospels I'll try reading Isaiah, it has some really profound imagery. That's why the title of today's message was "Apocalyptic Literature", language failed Isaiah, forcing him to use metaphorical language.

There were four key points, a lot was based on the grace of God and the fall of the kingdoms and human work. The preacher made a good point about nations, that superpowers today keep rising and falling. A few decades ago it was Russia, then America, now Asia. Same as in Isaiah, when there were prophesies of Egypt, Cush, Babylon, Edom, Arabia, Jerusalem, Tyre and the Earth.

• God is calling for our Trust
• Live our Lives under His Grace
• Real people have real problems
• Set your eyes on what is to come, remembering the past

Enough of that. About religion of all sorts now. Whenever my mother sees a person who is learned and critical, she wonders how they can trust so completely in other deities and idols. But what determines man's trust in something. It's like our own religion, my Buddhist friend wonders how I believe so much in God and I her.

Now I'm listening to tracks from The Fiddler on the Roof, I need to rent the movie soon. The first time I did, my player couldn't read it. It is about a Jewish village of sorts, a poor man, asking God about his lot in life, about the lack of honour in a poor man's life, thus the song "If I Were a Rich Man". But the Jews have a very strong faith, observing the Sabbath and always looking to God, their life long dreams being to sit in a synagogue to discuss the Holy Books. Then there are the Arab Christians, who are caught among the Israelites and their Muslim Arabs. You wonder how little your faith is compared to them. And if a person who worshipped idols had stronger faith than yours. Their devotion in things created by man so much stronger.

Enough of this. Lets work on the art piece for Youth Sunday. It's going to be A3 for mine, a church leader has commissioned me now.