03-05-23 Second Sunday in Lent: Gifts of the Dark Wood (3/8)

<p>Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues&nbsp;our worship series "Gifts of the Dark Wood" with his sermon "The Gift of Emptiness".</p> <p>"Despite his isolation in the crucifixion we have the hope that comes with the God who keeps God promises that the son will rise on the third day that Jesus's emptiness and feelings of abandonment still betray his faith and the God who hears his cry. In emptiness God works. My friends, at one point or another you to, if you have not already, will have this emptiness. Those moments when we seem inadequate like we have lost like we are no count. That whatever we have done is too big to overcome and that we are rejected. What will God do with your emptiness? Cause the lesson I take from today is that when God finds us in our moments of emptiness God doesn't ask us to negate who we are or what makes us unique. God doesn't use our emptiness to ask us to erase ourselves, but in those moments God works with us for something new. God works to transform our pains and our losses into new life. When you've been brought low with God your story isn't over because in that emptiness when we so easily say that we feel the farthest from God. Well that's the moment we're in the right position for God to raise us up."&nbsp;</p> <p>Scripture: Mark 15:22-28 &amp; Luke 17:33 (read by Bailey Schmidt)</p> <p>Contemporary Reading from "Gifts of the Dark Wood" by Eric Elnes (read by Pastor Colton Lott)</p> <p><strong>Click here to donate: </strong><a href="https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno</a></p>