Pastor’s Blog
Escape: Psalm 59:9, 17
Have you ever had a dream where you were being chased? There’s that sense of dire straits, of peril and intensity because "they" are out to get you, and they are coming fast! Thank God, that's just a dream. Imagine being on the run for your life!
All Things Well: Mark 7:37
There's a bookstore in the college town where my daughter lives that sells the best puzzles. I buy one for my wife from time to time. They hold together even when you pick them up vertically. They are well-made puzzles.
Sometimes I feel like a poorly made human being, or perhaps another way to put it is that sometimes I feel like a well-made puzzle. Sometimes I just cannot figure myself out. What's wrong? Why do I feel like this? I don't know. It's a puzzle.
Shift Your Weight: Matthew 14
Sometimes it’s the same motions and activities and steps that we’ve done hundreds of times, but it’s the context that throws us off and makes us doubt we can do it.
For example, in Matthew 14, Jesus walks out across the water of the Sea of Galilee to reach his disciples. It’s stormy. The waves are high. Their boat is taking on water. In the deep gloom they discern a figure in the water who identifies himself, above the noise of the storm, as their teacher, Jesus. Jesus calls to Peter to come out onto the water to him. In the storm. Boat sinking. Waves high. Walk on the water.