09.19.08
Posted in General Blog Post at 4:08 pm by Pastor Don
Dear Friends:
What better thing to do on a warm last Friday of summer than to plant mums and to tidy up a garden? I’m sitting here with a mum that I planted a few years ago, and given nurture, sunshine, and encouragement, it began to thrive. Now with a young plant in my hand, another mum waits to be planted and thrive.
It works that way with people doesn’t it? We offer the children opportunities to grow, and here at Church, we seek to give them the nurture of love, patience, caring, and encouragement. Even more we offer them the shining of the Son, that being Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And in so doing, we have the opportunity to watch them thrive in the Kingdom of God.
Are you celebrating the opportunities to encourage, the opportunities to nurture, the opportunities to share your faith, and to help a young person grow in the faith and thrive? It gets done here at Church many times. To be planted and then to grow; that’s an awesome thing to watch.
We are blessed to be a blessing. That sounds good to me. Come on by. Let’s talk about it. The coffee’s fresh and the light is on. I look forward to it.
Your friend, Pastor Don
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09.05.08
Posted in General Blog Post at 6:58 pm by Pastor Don
Dear Friends:
I’m here in the garden celebrating an Easter lily in September. What a beauty! A 40-inch lily plant in the middle of a garden. I like to plant some of the spring lilies from the Easter service, knowing that they will bloom again in the same year. Fun, and a good reminder that Easter continues.
Easter in September…is it possible to celebrate it in September? What a shame if we have to wait until April 12, 2009 to celebrate Easter. The Gospel story says that we don’t have to wait at all. The Christian life style is a means of celebrating Easter on a daily basis. The songs says, “I serve a risen savior, He’s in the world today…….You ask me how I know He lives; He lives within my heart.”
And so for the Christian, each day is a little Easter, serving the risen Christ in all walks of life, whether at home, work, play, school, market, highway, and Church. As a Christian Church, we celebrate that we are an Easter community, understanding that no person is hopeless, that Christ can work an Easter in anybody…even in September.
If ever, you’d like to talk about it, let me know. Stop by, pick up a Bible if you wish, enjoy the possibility of newness. It’s a reality of the Christian life (”If anyone is in Christ, he/she is a new creation”, II Cor. 5:l6). Come on by. The coffee’s fresh. The lights are on.
Your friend, Pastor Don
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