April 26-30, 2026

Rumours of Wars

“You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened.”

it is hard not to be afraid

my connection is intimate

wars and rumours of wars

threaten my selfish peace

“From the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days! But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age.”

wars may come, or threaten

fear may inhabit every word

and yet I have been assured

those who stand are blessed

“As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God; Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another.”

despite what may come to be

I know that my Saviour reigns

He shall call at the end of days

and I shall run into open arms

On a sermon by Russ Worrad at Emmanuel Orillia, April 26, 2026

Scripture quotations from: Matthew 24; Daniel 12; Job 19