After getting back in the car from picking Lincoln up at daycare, Jordyn insisted that I watch the video she recorded on her iPad while she was waiting for us. I assumed it would be of a song she was singing or a story she made up, but it wasn’t.
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The Pastor's Peace
This time of year offers to many the opportunity to get out your map and check to be sure you are on the right path: the path that leads to Zion.
God has created us and placed us in times such as these. As followers of Jesus Christ with a passion to share the love of Jesus with all, we can make the soil around us vitamin rich and ready for good things.
What I truly appreciate about funerals is the knowledge that they all end the same. No matter the circumstances surrounding them, the ending message is the same. That message is not one of endings at all, but of new beginnings.
It does not just require faith to believe the promises of God will come to be amongst the believers of Sewickley UMC, but it requires faith to believe those promises might not look the way we expect or prayed for them to look.
As I sit to write the Pastor’s Peace for the November newsletter, it is only half-way through October. There are a few bold(ish) statements I would like to make in faith.
What do Vanocka, English Muffin, Yufka, Zopf, Naan, Bagel, Qistibi, Paratha, Obi Non, and Grissini all have in common?
I have a very serious question for you: “Why did the math book look so sad?” If you want to know the answer, you must read to the end…
In the famous words of a much loved Sunday school song, “this little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.” Please make a commitment to shine your light over our children.
So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.
Galatians 5:1
Much like the “Where’s Waldo?” scenes, the more you train your eye to see Jesus, the more you will actually see Jesus. Jesus is out there.
Jesus doesn’t climb back up on the cross every year; we just remember what he did every year. Until Jesus comes again, we are in the Eastertide season. We are tasked with a single purpose: to show the love and truth of Jesus.