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The Coming Surprise
Turning Point
Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming--in the evening, at midnight, at the
crowing of the rooster, or in the morning.
Mark 13:35
Recommended Reading
Mark 13:32-37
Every day was hard for the Padgett children while their dad was deployed in Afghanistan. They missed him terribly and sometimes tearfully. Then one day last winter, Joseph and Cortney joined classmates in the school cafeteria for a program. The school band struck up "America the Beautiful," and a soldier in combat fatigues stepped through the door. Instantly the two youngsters leaped up and ran through the crowd with tears in their eyes. Their dad, Spc. Buddy Padgett, had surprised his children with an early return home. 1
We don't know the day or hour of our Lord's return, but what a glorious surprise awaits us! Jesus told us to watch, for we don't know if He'll come when the alarm clock rings, the dinner bell chimes, or the clock strikes midnight. We must be ready to leap to our feet with joyful shouts of "He's back! He's home!"
For nearly twenty years a spiritual enrichment has come into my ministry because I have realized the great New Testament revelation of the personal return of our Lord.
Dinsdale Young, English Methodist preacher
Read-thru-the-Bible
Psalm 148:1 – Proverbs 2:22
Turning Point
Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming--in the evening, at midnight, at the
crowing of the rooster, or in the morning.
Mark 13:35
Recommended Reading
Mark 13:32-37
Every day was hard for the Padgett children while their dad was deployed in Afghanistan. They missed him terribly and sometimes tearfully. Then one day last winter, Joseph and Cortney joined classmates in the school cafeteria for a program. The school band struck up "America the Beautiful," and a soldier in combat fatigues stepped through the door. Instantly the two youngsters leaped up and ran through the crowd with tears in their eyes. Their dad, Spc. Buddy Padgett, had surprised his children with an early return home. 1
We don't know the day or hour of our Lord's return, but what a glorious surprise awaits us! Jesus told us to watch, for we don't know if He'll come when the alarm clock rings, the dinner bell chimes, or the clock strikes midnight. We must be ready to leap to our feet with joyful shouts of "He's back! He's home!"
For nearly twenty years a spiritual enrichment has come into my ministry because I have realized the great New Testament revelation of the personal return of our Lord.
Dinsdale Young, English Methodist preacher
Read-thru-the-Bible
Psalm 148:1 – Proverbs 2:22
