January 21, 2018. When is it the right time? Today Pastor Penny talks about two kinds of time: the ordinary time that we measure, and God’s time. Jesus’ disciples lived and worked in ordinary time, but they began to see sparks of God’s time in their lives when they started to understand who Jesus was. If we know what to look for, we can catch glimpses of God’s time too.
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