"For those who know Him, Christ is not a mystery." - Bert Ortegon*

   Jesus Christ has become everything to me.  I am learning Him in a way that is taking me and others that I teach into a depth of knowing Him that we have never before experienced.  I have come to understand and embrace the words of Paul to the Corinthian church when he said, "For I have determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified."

   My message is and forever will be Jesus Christ.  It is my heart, calling, and mandate to preach Him with simplicity and clarity, that He Himself might be presented as a tangible reality.

   The Father has chosen to reveal to US the mystery which has been hidden through the ages, that which the prophets could see from afar and the angels longed to look into - the mystery: which is

CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY.

   We must know this One who is everything we will ever need, who is the firstborn of a whole new creation, and who overcame everything that needed to be overcome.  For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things.

   It is my prayer that through this message He will be revealed TO you, and IN you.  And may you become, with me, an "APPREHENDER" of Jesus Christ.

In Christ's Love,
Don Leavell
*a member of my congregation