January is Over

Well its official. I turned 30 last week. So I am in my thirties now. Wow.

It has been really cold and gray lately. Just darn cold.

Worship has been warm- and that's the way it should be. I preached the last couple weeks on the return of Jesus to Nazareth and how his hometown buddies like him and then after he says some things about loving outsiders (people in present day Lebanon and Syria) the hometown folk want to kill him. Those church folk sure got riled up about the message of loving your enemy. Thanks for keeping it real Jesus- that message was one I needed personally.

The kids helped lead us with one of the songs on Sunday. That was a lot of fun. They did a great job.

The Youth Group has started a short film project called for the time being: Love is and Love is Not... It is a film based on 1 Corinthians 13- a great chapter on Christian love. We are going to be working on it for a few weeks and we hope to develop it in to something that is shown in worship on Sunday.

In our Bible for Dummies class on Tues morning- I continue to be dazzled by how the "same 'ole" stories in Geneses from a few thousand years ago connect to real life today. We just finished reading about Joseph and his brothers. All the family drama and betrayal- the deep wounds and the dishonesty. But in the end there was repentance, healing and love. Like Joseph said, what others intend for bad God has made into good.
Lift up Christ in your life and God will make things live that appear dead- God can heal even the long dead and broken family relationships.
peace,
Pastor Corey