Are you lonely? In this fourth message in a series on Paul's thorn in the flesh, Pastor Doug Agnew considers the challenge of forced loneliness. He explains three ways God uses loneliness to make you more like Jesus.
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Doug Agnew
Loneliness The Ministry of the Thorn Grace Church (PCA)
“ Great Sermon! ” Thank you and God bless. I am incredibly lonely.I don't see my family and over the years I have had a couple of good Christian friends who either move far away or die. I attend a Bible study group of 8 people and am the only one not invited to an upcoming wedding. I don't know why, it hurts, maybe it shouldn't as it's their wedding and they can invite who they want.
I'm telling myself this is a chance to look at my heart, to have the right attitude and love. knowing that I have grown in my times alone with God, that He is forever with me. I know He has His reasons in why I always end up alone and I have to trust Like Spurgeon and Paul I cry to God to take this away but I always end up back here.
Norman Smith (6/1/2008)
from New Haw,Surrey,England
“ Great Sermon! Just what i needed ” Thankyou brother Agnew for this sermon which was so applicable in my own pilgramage as a Christian.
I am very lonely. All my Christian life i have yearned for warm Christian fellowship ,and i have come to the conclusion it hardly, nay,even doesnt exist!
I am among the congregation at my church..but am lonely.
I write encouraging comments to sermons on Sermonaudio..and am lonely.
I work hard for my customers...and am lonely.
I witness in outdoor evangelistic work...and am lonely.
I realise that it is quite common for some of the saints,from Elijah..to Paul to have suffered loneliness.
And above all,the Lord Jesus Christ Himself knew loneliness. So i encourage myself in the Lord.
Thankyou.
Doug Agnew graduated from Clemson University with a BA in Economics and from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree. He has served as pastor of Olive Grove Baptist Church in Creedmoor, North Carolina, Southside Baptist Church in Charlotte, and...
