“What is Truth?”
For today’s Lent worship, Pastor Jacob Scott from Zion Lutheran – Leeds/Lodi is leading our services today.
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For today’s Lent worship, Pastor Jacob Scott from Zion Lutheran – Leeds/Lodi is leading our services today.
The physics of light and dark can be kind of fascinating. We may not spend much time thinking about it, but there are some interesting facts about light and dark. Did you know light is actually a “thing”? Light is electromagnetic radiation. It is kinetic. It moves. And it moves fast! The speed of light is 671 million miles-per-hour! Darkness, on the other hand, is nothing. It is defined as the absence of all light waves.
This Wednesday Pastor Peter Schlicht from Eastside Lutheran in Madison, is leading our Lent worship services.
We’re kind of spoiled when it comes to water. We have it in abundance. If you want a drink of water, you have choices. You can have tap water, or bottled water, or spring water, or purified water, or flavored water. Did you know that the Village of DeForest has four groundwater wells that supply our water? Between 400 and 700 deep, these wells keep us well supplied.
I don’t know if you caught it a moment ago, but in our text both Jesus and Nicodemus recognize the other as a “teacher.” The first words out of Nicodemus’ mouth are, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher…” (v. 2) Nicodemus calls Jesus “teacher.” And Jesus will do the same to Nicodemus. Later in the text Jesus says to Nicodemus, You are the teacher of Israel. (v. 10) Reminds me of two doctors meeting. They greet one another, “Doctor…” “Doctor…”
For today’s Lent worship, Pastor Scott Schwertfeger from Zion Lutheran Leeds/Lodi is leading our worship services.
Some of you may have paid attention to the controversy a couple TV ads caused during the Super Bowl this year. The ads I’m talking about are the “Jesus Gets Us” ads. The one ad showed a number of still photos of people in each other’s face yelling angrily. The point was that people don’t get one another and that brings us into conflict.
Exodus 24 is an extremely significant chapter of our Bible. Here is the context: Israel has come out of Egypt a free nation and has arrived at Mt. Sinai. The LORD God has just spoken to the people from Mt. Sinai. His address began with a reminder of his love and grace: I am the LORD, your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. (Exodus 20:2). After that Gospel introduction, he spoke out loud in their hearing the Ten Commandments. The voice of God scared the people.
One of the potential dangers for the Christian as we live our lives as salt and light in this world is the pitfall we might call “cruise control Christianity.” You all know what cruise control is. It’s that option in your car that allows you to accelerate to a desired speed and then engage this control that automatically keeps your car going at that speed. The car will not go less, and it will not go more, than the speed you set.
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