Prayer is no polite affair.   One dear member of our congregation used to refer to it as “bending God’s ear.”   The prophet Habakkuk bent God’s ear with some serious issues; issues all of us will face when God’s timing and His work conflict with our own expectations.   How do we respond when God seems to be in abstentia or when He works in a way that seems unfair?   The prophet Habakkuk’s name means, “to embrace.”   How willing are we to embrace God and to cling to Him when that embrace feels a lot like wrestling.   When Jacob wrestled with God, he refused to let go.   What about you?  Will you let go, when you wrestle with God’s timing or His ways of working?  Or will you embrace Him and refuse to let go.   Listen as Pastor Wheeler begins our study of Habakkuk with this sermon, entitled, “Bending God’s Ear.”

Get the 20130224 Bulletin and listen to Bending God’s Ear, Habakkuk 1:1-11.