Pastor's Page
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Rev. Mark Airey
Happy New Year!
There has been much to be thankful for that has taken place in the year of 2011...a year of "new beginnings here at Lutheran Church of Prayer. Well, we have this new pastor of course, but there has been much in the way of positive changes with the congregation in totality. There has been activities such as the VBS with the preschool, the new "Christ's Light" small group bible studies, Octoberfest, Trunk and Treat, Christmas Dessert and Sing-Along, many other new ministries being formed and an increase in people involved in all aspects of our life...including worship!
I wonder if God has anything to do with all of this...well, of course He does! With all of this newness my prayer is that we will always keep an eye on what He is telling us and what His will is for us. I know that all of this change has not come with some struggle and I know we will have struggle in the future. When change happens there will always be conflict but as Christians we are called to handle all things with an eternal understanding. Even though things might be a little bumpy we know who is in control and who will be victorious in the end. So, it is always to hang on to God and His love and that is what's truly important.
For this new year let us resolve to look for His promptings in what we do as His children here at LCoP and know as Paul writes, "that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor power, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." If we keep this in mind and keep our eye on what He is telling us we can weather any storm or struggle! Finally, the resolution of the conflict of the old and the new resides in two great biblical truths.
First: God's character and purposes for us are constant from generation to generation. As Christians, we experience God most fully through Jesus Christ, who has shared our variable human history, yet "is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8). Second: it is finally true, our fear and anxiety notwithstanding, that God IS "making all things new" (Isaiah 43:19). We are free to love and risk and fail and forgive and launch out into every New Year without fear because in Christ we are God's beloved.
Updated 12/31/2011
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