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Hallowax (Halloween): Waxing Toward Holiness —Sermon Series Prologue by Rev. Nicholas Sybrowsky

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  Revision Update: 10/19/2025 Originally published:  Sunday, September 28, 2025.  This message is being refined in stages. Final version forthcoming. Sermon Thesis: God’s setting apart of His people . Intro:   In a culture that celebrates masks and momentary thrills, Hallowax (Halloween) invites us to consider what it means to be formed—not just disguised.  As wax responds to heat, so too are we shaped by the refining fire of holiness.  Like the moon in its phases, we are called to wax toward fullness—toward holiness—even as the world around us wanes in truth, identity, and sacred purpose.  This prologue sets the stage for a sermon journey where sanctification is not seasonal, but eternal.  Through symbolism, Scripture, and spiritual reflection, Rev. Nicholas Sybrowsky explores how we might wax toward holiness in a world that seems to be waning in truth, identity, and sacred purpose.  How might we reflect divine light in a darkening age? ...

Book of Life | Citizens of Heaven | Only the Registered Enter Heaven by Rev. Nicholas Sybrowsky

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  Cinematic Sermon includes all five Homilies Service Invocation:       God Almighty, you are our Higher Power.  Grant us serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can and wisdom to know the difference.  Strength to live one moment at a time, to enjoy one moment at a time and to accept hardship as the pathway to peace.  Taking this sinful world as Jesus did not as I would have it.  Trusting that He will make all things right as I surrender my will to Him, that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him in the next life, eternal life.  Amen. Opening Word & Reading for Worship:      On November 29, 2012, my life pivoted.  That night, I drank my last alcoholic beverage.  I was not just attending an outreach event—I was leading one, representing others while silently fighting my own battle.  Our team hosted a Denim & Diamonds fundraiser in su...

Book of Life | Citizens of Heaven | God’s Wrath by Rev. Nicholas Sybrowsky

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  Service Invocation: Opening Prayer: Serenity Prayer . (Link leads to blog article) Opening Word & Reading for Worship:      The Bible provides us the Bread of Life and Living Water that by God’s design our souls deeply need to thrive.   These are important details to the spiritual life of man & woman.   Another important soul detail that the Bible points to as well is the “ Book of Life ”.   Jesus, The Word, himself is quoted by Luke in chapter 10:20 speaking of this book.   In The Return of the Seventy-Two disciples, he had sent ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go in Lk 10:1  (ESV) . [17] The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!" [18] And he said to them, " I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.[19] Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothin...