Hi, I'm James McDonald and as I always say, welcome back to our weekly teaching.

Weekly. How do you measure time?

Certainly there are decades and every year is a milestone.

Sometimes minutes and hours seem to go on forever.

But you know, I think the Lord measures time in weeks.

That's how he created the world. On six days, the Lord created the world, and on the seventh day,

he rested. And, you know, we see so much in the book of Revelation about weeks. And the prophecy

about the end times came to Daniel in a series of weeks. I think God sees us in weeks.

And once a week, God has ordained that we would set aside the things that have been taking

our time and our energy and our focus. And we focus exclusively on the Lord. I grew up in a home

where the Lord's Day had to be from sun up to sundown, no fun allowed.

And my grandmother was all about that,

but I think we've come to understand better

that there's lots of ways that God can be put first

in our leisure, in our family time.

But once a week, we should begin the Lord's Day

in the Word of God.

And I know that some people are traveling,

people are doing all sorts of different things,

people are attending churches that don't feed them,

but they need to continue there.

And into every one of those situations,

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