Rosh Hashanah is the new years celebration which places an emphasis on repentance and preparing for the arrival of the judge and king. Gideon experienced the leading of God in many different ways, yet he chose to simplify the process of discovering the will of God, leading to formalism. The aid to a relationship with God became more important than God.

Often we have established ways of repenting and once we have done our checklist, we have accomplished our goal. The challenge of this sermon is to lay aside our tradition of repentance, and daily blow the shafar, letting God reveal where we need to make things right with our neighbour, and with Him. This week should be a week of repentance as we look forward to yom kippur - the day of atonement.

God bless,

Pastor Wayne