Sharpen Your Pencil: Notes from CBOQ Assembly 2025 (Habakkuk 2:1-3)
To see the full message, scroll to the bottom. There's bad news , there's good news, and t here's no news The bad news (as Hab akkuk would agree) is this : the world is not as it should be. We are not as we should be. We can fix neither . We like to picture oursel ves as floating on a lake, each in our own little canoes . We’re paddling around, just trying not to bump into anybody else on the lake, because they’re all doing exactly the same thing. What we haven’t noticed is this: we’re not on a lake. We're on a river. No matter which direction we’re paddling , that river is taking us somewhere. It has a destination, and we cannot escape its current . That's the bad news . What’s the good news ? We are not alone in the boat. When [Jesus] got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciple...