End Times Signs!

For Sunday, July 27, 2025:

Mark 13:4 NLT: “Tell us, when will all this happen? What sign will show us that these things are about to be fulfilled?”

We can identify with these disciples who had questions about the end times. Most of us have similar questions. Let’s have a look at Jesus’ answers.

Beware of false leaders who lie. Many will come claiming to be the Messiah or the Christ or his representative. They are not. Don’t be fooled. Only Jesus is the real deal! Only the Son of God deserves your loyalty.

There will be many wars and even more rumors of war. There are currently over 40 conflicts in our world where people are shooting real bullets at each other. Real bombs are being dropped, and real rockets and drones are being sent into the air. We should pray for peace, which will certainly come when Jesus returns. He is, after all, the prince of peace! We probably won’t see worldwide peace until then. Our prayer for peace should be, “Come quickly, Lord Jesus!”

There are nearly 200 countries on our planet, lines drawn on maps by imperfect humans. I hate to say this, but most of them really don’t matter. Most countries are too small and/or lack the resources for worldwide influence. Keep your eye on China and Xi Jinping, with the world’s largest army; Russia and Vladimir Putin, who never ended their Cold War dislike for the US; the US and Donald Trump, home of the free; and Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu, who seem to be running the show in the Middle East. Much will happen in the Middle East in the end times scenario, as Israel and Jerusalem function as God’s headquarters.

In a recent sermon, the pastor preached that we’re currently in the end times of the end times! Possibly! Are you ready to go, to move to the next reality? Have you repented and given up the world to return to the Father and His Son? The time to do this is now. Each of us can sign up for the Jesus team before the end times, and we would be wise to do so. If we wait until Judgment Day, it will be too late, a missed opportunity with eternal ramifications. Don’t be left on the outside!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus In the City Fellowship

Son of God!

For Thursday, December 22, 2022:

Luke 1:35b NLT: “The baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God.”

Our Savior has a lot of names. We know him as Jesus, which means Savior or The Lord saves. Jesus is our modern English language translation. In Hebrew, it’s Yeshua or Y’shua, to save or to deliver. In the Old Testament, that same name was Joshua.

Isaiah calls him Immanuel, God with us, and also predicts that our Savior will be known as: Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father and Prince of Peace.

But the angel Gabriel tells Mary that her child will be known as the Son of the Most High! Consider the complexity of God’s plan, that 1/3 of our trinitarian God would come to earth as a little baby and become the influential holy man people still worship 2,000 years later!

Mary’s baby was on a mission trip to rescue mankind!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship

Prince of Peace

Dec. 18, 2017 Monday Message:

“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” Psalms 122:6a NIV

Jerusalem in universally known as “the Holy City.” There is debate over which religion should control the Holy City, but no question that it’s a special place for Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Jerusalem – especially “old Jerusalem” - is known as the City of David, and David wrote about it in Psalm 122. Jerusalem is where the people go to praise the name of the Lord. Picture David in your mind’s eye, joyfully shouting, “I was glad what they said to me, ‘Let us go into the house of the Lord!”

Mostly David asks for peace within his namesake city. “May there be peace within your walls … For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, ‘Peace be within you.’” from Ps. 122:6-7

We need this prayer as much nowadays as we did 3,000 years ago.

Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship meets next Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017, Christmas Eve day, 3249 30^th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406, 10:30 AM. Pastor Michael Pilla leads us in a celebration of the arrival of the Prince of Peace! All are welcome!