What do you do with a demanding, jealous God? I mean talk about high expectations! The first words concerning the Israelites—God’s people—spoken by the Lord to Moses were, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods […]
Month: June 2014
What’s Important: What We Think or What We Do?
A group of pastors and I recently grappled with the focus of our teaching ministries. Specifically, we wondered if it were more important for us to focus on the theological beliefs of the Christian Church, or if we should highlight Christian lifestyle expectations. To put the question another way, “Is what we believe more important, […]
Three Lessons from Pentecost
The story has all the appeal of a science fiction thriller. There are strange sights and sounds. An alien force breaks through locked doors, possesses a group of men and gives them supernatural powers. No this story isn’t the brainchild of L. Ron Hubbard or Isaac Asimov. The story is found in the Book of […]
Four Lessons Learned
This past week ten members of the congregation that I serve Desert Streams Lutheran Church traveled to the Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission on a mission trip. The mission is located in Rock Point, Arizona, which is in the four corners area. It is a six hour drive for us, and for those of us who […]