Pastors Message

Sermon – November 3, 2019

Sermon:

 The Story of Zaccheus

Text: Luke 19:1-10
For some of us, everything we know about today’s story is from the children’s song “Zacchaeus was a wee little man” and this seems like a fairly straightforward story. Verse 10 tells us “10 For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.” Throughout Luke’s Gospel, Jesus sides with the outcasts. Jesus restores people to their rightful place as children of God. Jesus treats the outcasts, those on the margins of society, with respect and with compassion. As followers of Christ, we should also respond to the outcasts, those on the margins of society, with respect and with compassion.

Pastors Message – November/December, 2019

Notes from Pastor Denise

As we are moving into Fall and the upcoming Holiday Season, I have been enjoying the change of colors in our area. The colors and the scenery have been breathtaking.

Around every turn I am reminded of God’s power and majesty. I am in awe at the gifts from God as evidenced in creation.

This brought to mind the hymn I learned as a child – He’s Everything To Me. This song is based on Psalm 8. Verses 3-4 say, “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?”

God does care. The God who created the universe saw fit to give of God’s self in the form of Jesus Christ so that we could enjoy eternity in God’s presence.

There is much about the world that is in need of grace and mercy. Yet knowing that though Fall will give way to Winter, unless Christ returns before this, we know that Spring will come again with the promise of renewed life.

May the changing of the seasons remind you of God’s love and care. May you be reminded that God loves you.

Blessings,
Pastor Denise