Beauty
Broken Signposts, Chapter 4
Part of Broken Signposts—2023 Lent Sermon Series & Congregational Book Study
March 26, 2023

“Every expression of true beauty can thus be acknowledged as a path leading to an encounter with the Lord Jesus.”
—Pope Francis


Epic Beauty Battles!

While it’s true that person to person, we don’t agree exactly on what is beautiful.
But here’s what we do know:

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God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart. —Ecclesiastes 3:11

One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. —Psalm 27

The four worship centers of the people of God:
• The


Temple
Temple
Temple
…all were disappointing or destroyed

So God gave Jesus to

among us!

Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish. —Ephesians 5:25-27