Sunday Download

Great launch to new series - The NowWhat Family. I preached on a passage rarely addressed - the rape of Tamar in 2 Samuel 13. The fascinating part of the passage is how relevant the family response is to our culture. No one invested energy into preventing this tragedy - rather, the Dad, David, enabled it. In the aftermath of the assault, the advice she was given reflects the dysfunctional dynamics in families today: Let's keep this a secret; Protect the perpetrator, not the victim; Get over it; but most disturbing, do nothing - just get mad.

Stories like this are in the Bible to remind us what not to do! When a crisis hits our family, we need to take action.

Good crowd today - close to 1200. We were looking for folks at Starting Point tonight, but had a slim crowd - that's okay.

Look forward this week to preparing for the second message in this series.