AN ODE TO CURIOSITY
This Place of Curiosity — the Very Opposite of Judgement — is Often Where I Experience God.
Read the whole article here https://mbird.com/2021/05/an-ode-to-curiosity/
One of the best scenes in the opening season of the surprise-hit show Ted Lasso is during a darts match in a sports bar. As the game is heating up and a crowd is clustering around him and his opponent, Lasso tells a story in parabolic fashion. While driving his son to school one day, he sees a quote painted on a wall: “Be curious, not judgmental.” The quote reminds him of the people who used to belittle him when he was young. “Not a single one of them was curious,” he recalls. “They thought they had it figured out. They judged.” Little did they know that Lasso did have something to offer (and little does his opponent know that Lasso is a master at darts). The moral here is that curiosity is the opposite of judgment. Where judgment decides, curiosity searches; where judgment closes a door, curiosity leaves it open.
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[Sunday] Hope Shapes Us - Rise
If your house was about to be destroyed, would you clean it? Would you fix the leaky faucet? Would you take care of it. Perhaps our care of creation follows when our hope is in its destruction. But the resurrection gives a new hope, not in destruction, but in a restorative God who's making all things new again.
Questions for the Week
Have you ever seen something that was completely restored? How did you feel about that thing that was restored?
Read Revelation 21:1-8 What does Jesus promise to do? How is making all things new different than making a new thing?
How does having Hope that all things will be restored change how you live today?
Action Item: Take some time this week and think about a troubled place or problem in our world today. Spend some time praying for that place or issue, trusting that God will make all things new.
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What Had happened at Grace this week.
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A Fresh Breath of Hope
Consider the Lillies of the Field
Read the Whole article Here. https://mbird.com/2021/05/a-fresh-breath-of-hope/
Last year, there was a stunning spring, and I definitely noticed it. The blossoming and blooming of Capitol Hill is always beautiful, but spending my days working from home made for more walks, more gazing out the window, more noticing.
My office told us we’d begin teleworking. I nodded. “Two weeks at most,” I thought. Two weeks would be nice to be home. A little breather from my normal chaotic job. But it wasn’t two weeks, and from my house I watched spring unfold, but not with the normal ease and pleasure.
It was a mercy that while everything else shuttered up, the blossoms still opened themselves to bring our world color and life. As the two weeks wore on, I began to realize this wouldn’t go away. The normal hustle and bustle of the city slowed to a sudden, abrupt stop. The same words were on everyone’s lips: “the pandemic,” “restrictions,” “case numbers.” But amidst the frenzy, a trip to the grocery store delivered the same mercy to me the spring blossoms offered to our scared and shaky world.
Read the Whole article Here. https://mbird.com/2021/05/a-fresh-breath-of-hope/
Confirmation 2021 + Photos
Check out the recording of the confirmation.
Brooklyn Dressler
DJ Vik
Katy Vik
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[Sunday] Live Resurrection - Rise
So what will we look like in the resurrection? We can look at Jesus for some hints. But what bearing does that have on us today? Actually, it has a lot because, if we think all this will be thrown away like trash, then we may treat it as trash. But what if this body is eternal?
Questions for the Week
What do you think most people would think the resurrection would be like?
Read 1 Corinthians 15:35-58. What images does Paul use to describe the resurrection?
What are the implications of the resurrection for how you live your life now?
Action Item: This week when you would usually serve yourself, think of the resurrection and how you could serve someone else instead.
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---- THIS WEEK AT GRACE - Today May 2, 2021
Worship Services 8:30 AM & 10:15 AM
Live-streamed on www.gracelutheranpsl.com 10:15 AM
Zoom into Fellowship Resumes Next Week
Korean Church Worship 1:00 PM
Rest of the week May 3 - May 8, 2021
LWML Monday, 1:00 PM
Olivet School Tuesday, 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Cinco de Mayo Wednesday
Individual - Small Group Communion Wednesday, 11AM - Noon
BackPack Packing Thursday, 11:00 AM
Bible Study at church and live streamed Thursday, 11:00 AM
Korean Church Prayer Gathering Saturday, 6:00 AM
ACC GRAND OPENING will be held on Friday, May 14, 2021 at 11:30.
For complete calendar information, go to www.gracelutheranpsl.com/calendar
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS THIS WEEK: None Listed
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS THIS WEEK: George Tsikoudis & Jay Horton - 5/02, Kent Bowen & Blanca Cuellar - 5/03, Paxton Becker-Sauber & Corbin Callender - 5/04, Richard Harms - 5/05, Linda Gannon -5/06, Steven Choung - 5/08.
THE FLOWERS ADORNING THE ALTAR are given by John & Melinda Linderman in memory of their sister Anita.
CONFIRMATION SUNDAY - TODAY we have three youths, D.J. Vik, Katy Vik, and Brooklyn Dressler, who are being confirmed during the 10:15 service.
THE LWML meets tomorrow, May 3rd, for its last meeting until September. We will be using the ‘LWML Spring Quarterly’ Bible study, page 20 & 21, “Life is Like Swiss Cheese,” for our study. If you don’t have a Quarterly, please pick up the Bible study handout today. Bring your Bible. Bring a friend! Meet at 1 p.m. in ACC.
GRACE SHIRTS - NEW We are now selling and taking orders for a “Grace Lutheran” blue golf shirt. Cost will be $25.00. See, e-mail, text or call Ed Bock or Kevin Garbers for information.
PLEASE CALL PEOPLE: The COVID quarantines began over a year ago and many of our members have health conditions which have kept them isolated at home. So that we all don’t descend into madness, let’s call and talk to each other regularly as well as sending cards or notes through the mail. Phone and address directories are available for your convenience on the counter by the office door.
COMMUNION ON WEDNESDAY: If you, or someone you know, would like to celebrate Holy Communion but prefer a small group or unable to attend Sunday service, Pastor Cris has set aside Wednesday’s to celebrate the meal in small/family groups. Please come by on Wednesday at: 11:00, 11:20, 11:40 or 12:00 (noon) and partake of this wonderful meal.
BIBLE STUDY FOR ALL! Pastor Cris is conducting a Bible Study on Thursday’s at 11 AM and you are welcome to attend in person! Seating is with social distancing along with wearing a mask. The Bible Study is also “live streamed” through ZOOM as well for you to participate from home. (www.GracelutheranPSL.com) Also, recorded for your future viewing if you would like.
SEE YOUR GRACE FAMILY ON ZOOM: Coli, along with Pastor, will be hosting Zoom to Coffee at NOON, TODAY, for those who would like to join in fellowship “virtually” to see and chat with Grace members and friends. All are welcome! www.GraceLutheranPSL.com
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What Had happened at Grace this week.
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On Controversy
Your aim, I doubt not, is good; but you have need to watch and pray for you will find Satan at your right hand to resist you; he will try to debase your views; and though you set out in defense of the cause of God, if you are not continually looking to the Lord to keep you, it may become your own cause, and awaken in you those tempers which are inconsistent with true peace of mind, and will surely obstruct communion with God.
Dear Sir,
As you are likely to be engaged in controversy, and your love of truth is joined with a natural warmth of temper, my friendship makes me solicitous on your behalf. You are of the strongest side; for truth is great, and must prevail; so that a person of abilities inferior to yours might take the field with a confidence of victory. I am not therefore anxious for the event of the battle; but I would have you more than a conqueror, and to triumph, not only over your adversary, but over yourself. If you cannot be vanquished, you may be wounded. To preserve you from such wounds as might give you cause of weeping over your conquests, I would present you with some considerations, which, if duly attended to, will do you the service of a great coat of mail; such armor, that you need not complain, as David did of Saul’s, that it will be more cumbersome than useful; for you will easily perceive it is taken from that great magazine provided for the Christian soldier, the Word of God. I take it for granted that you will not expect any apology for my freedom, and therefore I shall not offer one. For method’s sake, I may reduce my advice to three heads, respecting your opponent, the public, and yourself.
Consider Your Opponent
As to your opponent, I wish that before you set pen to paper against him, and during the whole time you are preparing your answer, you may commend him by earnest prayer to the Lord’s teaching and blessing. This practice will have a direct tendency to conciliate your heart to love and pity him; and such a disposition will have a good influence upon every page you write.
If you account him a believer, though greatly mistaken in the subject of debate between you, the words of David to Joab concerning Absalom, are very applicable: “Deal gently with him for my sake.” The Lord loves him and bears with him; therefore you must not despise him, or treat him harshly. The Lord bears with you likewise, and expects that you should show tenderness to others, from a sense of the much forgiveness you need yourself. In a little while you will meet in heaven; he will then be dearer to you than the nearest friend you have upon earth is to you now. Anticipate that period in your thoughts; and though you may find it necessary to oppose his errors, view him personally as a kindred soul, with whom you are to be happy in Christ forever.
But if you look upon him as an unconverted person, in a state of enmity against God and his grace (a supposition which, without good evidence, you should be very unwilling to admit), he is a more proper object of your compassion than of your anger. Alas! “He knows not what he does.” But you know who has made you to differ. If God, in his sovereign pleasure, had so appointed, you might have been as he is now; and he, instead of you, might have been set for the defense of the gospel. You were both equally blind by nature. If you attend to this, you will not reproach or hate him, because the Lord has been pleased to open your eyes, and not his.
Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation. If, indeed, they who differ from us have a power of changing themselves, if they can open their own eyes, and soften their own hearts, then we might with less inconsistency be offended at their obstinacy: but if we believe the very contrary to this, our part is, not to strive, but in meekness to instruct those who oppose. “If peradventure God will give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth.” If you write with a desire of being an instrument of correcting mistakes, you will of course be cautious of laying stumbling blocks in the way of the blind or of using any expressions that may exasperate their passions, confirm them in their principles, and thereby make their conviction, humanly speaking, more impracticable.
Consider the Public
By printing, you will appeal to the public; where your readers may be ranged under three divisions: First, such as differ from you in principle. Concerning these I may refer you to what I have already said. Though you have your eye upon one person chiefly, there are many like-minded with him; and the same reasoning will hold, whether as to one or to a million.
There will be likewise many who pay too little regard to religion, to have any settled system of their own, and yet are preengaged in favor of those sentiments which are at least repugnant to the good opinion men naturally have of themselves. These are very incompetent judges of doctrine; but they can form a tolerable judgment of a writer’s spirit. They know that meekness, humility, and love are the characteristics of a Christian temper; and though they affect to treat the doctrines of grace as mere notions and speculations, which, supposing they adopted them, would have no salutary influence upon their conduct; yet from us, who profess these principles, they always expect such dispositions as correspond with the precepts of the gospel. They are quick-sighted to discern when we deviate from such a spirit, and avail themselves of it to justify their contempt of our arguments. The scriptural maxim, that “the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God,” is verified by daily observation. If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn, we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit. The weapons of our warfare, and which alone are powerful to break down the strongholds of error, are not carnal, but spiritual; arguments fairly drawn from Scripture and experience, and enforced by such a mild address, as may persuade our readers, that, whether we can convince them or not, we wish well to their souls, and contend only for the truth’s sake; if we can satisfy them that we act upon these motives, our point is half gained; they will be more disposed to consider calmly what we offer; and if they should still dissent from our opinions, they will be constrained to approve our intentions.
You will have a third class of readers, who, being of your own sentiments, will readily approve of what you advance, and may be further established and confirmed in their views of the Scripture doctrines, by a clear and masterly elucidation of your subject. You may be instrumental to their edification if the law of kindness as well as of truth regulates your pen, otherwise you may do them harm. There is a principle of self, which disposes us to despise those who differ from us; and we are often under its influence, when we think we are only showing a becoming zeal in the cause of God.
I readily believe that the leading points of Arminianism spring from and are nourished by the pride of the human heart; but I should be glad if the reverse were always true; and that to embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind. I think I have known some Arminians, that is, persons who for want of a clearer light, have been afraid of receiving the doctrines of free grace, who yet have given evidence that their hearts were in a degree humbled before the Lord.
And I am afraid there are Calvinists, who, while they account it a proof of their humility, that they are willing in words to debase the creature and to give all the glory of salvation to the Lord, yet know not what manner of spirit they are of. Whatever it be that makes us trust in ourselves that we are comparatively wise or good, so as to treat those with contempt who do not subscribe to our doctrines, or follow our party, is a proof and fruit of a self-righteous spirit. Self-righteousness can feed upon doctrines as well as upon works; and a man may have the heart of a Pharisee, while his head is stored with orthodox notions of the unworthiness of the creature and the riches of free grace. Yea, I would add, the best of men are not wholly free from this leaven; and therefore are too apt to be pleased with such representations as hold up our adversaries to ridicule, and by consequence flatter our own superior judgments. Controversies, for the most part, are so managed as to indulge rather than to repress his wrong disposition; and therefore, generally speaking, they are productive of little good. They provoke those whom they should convince, and puff up those whom they should edify. I hope your performance will savor of a spirit of true humility, and be a means of promoting it in others.
Consider Yourself
This leads me, in the last place, to consider your own concern in your present undertaking. It seems a laudable service to defend the faith once delivered to the saints; we are commanded to contend earnestly for it, and to convince gainsayers. If ever such defenses were seasonable and expedient they appear to be so in our own day, when errors abound on all sides and every truth of the gospel is either directly denied or grossly misrepresented.
And yet we find but very few writers of controversy who have not been manifestly hurt by it. Either they grow in a sense of their own importance, or imbibe an angry, contentious spirit, or they insensibly withdraw their attention from those things which are the food and immediate support of the life of faith, and spend their time and strength upon matters which are at most but of a secondary value. This shows, that if the service is honorable, it is dangerous. What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary, if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?
Your aim, I doubt not, is good; but you have need to watch and pray for you will find Satan at your right hand to resist you; he will try to debase your views; and though you set out in defense of the cause of God, if you are not continually looking to the Lord to keep you, it may become your own cause, and awaken in you those tempers which are inconsistent with true peace of mind, and will surely obstruct communion with God.
Be upon your guard against admitting anything personal into the debate. If you think you have been ill treated, you will have an opportunity of showing that you are a disciple of Jesus, who “when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not.” This is our pattern, thus we are to speak and write for God, “not rendering railing for railing, but contrariwise blessing; knowing that hereunto we are called.” The wisdom that is from above is not only pure, but peaceable and gentle; and the want of these qualifications, like the dead fly in the pot of ointment, will spoil the savor and efficacy of our labors.
If we act in a wrong spirit, we shall bring little glory to God, do little good to our fellow creatures, and procure neither honor nor comfort to ourselves. If you can be content with showing your wit, and gaining the laugh on your side, you have an easy task; but I hope you have a far nobler aim, and that, sensible of the solemn importance of gospel truths, and the compassion due to the souls of men, you would rather be a means of removing prejudices in a single instance, than obtain the empty applause of thousands. Go forth, therefore, in the name and strength of the Lord of hosts, speaking the truth in love; and may he give you a witness in many hearts that you are taught of God, and favored with the unction of his Holy Spirit.
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How to Stop Making Gospel into Law
A life with the eternal law behind me, emptied of its content and form on account of Christ who fulfilled the law for me, would mean I would never know where I fit on the divine chart of good works.
Read the full article at https://mbird.com/2021/04/how-to-stop-making-gospel-into-law/
1. God gave the law to creatures, but God is not the law.
The dream of finding Law [that inspires and gives life] imagines the theological project to be equating God and law, … to claim that God’s eternal, objective, righteous essence is none other than a graceful, nonthreatening, ordered, beautiful, eternal law as the thing that unites the complicated contradictory attributes of mercy and justice. […]
The law is taken to be the form of the will or mind of God … and so we mold our god into the shape of our happy life. […]
[Luther] knew that if one tried to describe God’s essence apart from forgiveness, what he got was God = law, which is God naked in majesty without any gospel, and that the end of that quest was death.
2. The law has two “uses,” but used by God. One use fosters and preserves life in the old world, and the other makes a person run from God’s threat/wrath to the mercy of Christ’s promise.
The law is not there to give ears [of faith], but to take them away. It does not give, but removes faith in God’s word. Worse, the law is there to kill sinners wherever it finds them.
3. The law always accuses, in both its uses, which is the essential or constant voice of the law.
The problem Paul had with the law is the same that you and I have: it kills us in whatever form it comes — ceremonial or moral — and we don’t want to die. It does not make us righteous; it condemns. … God gave the law for this one and only purpose: to threaten us with death, and carry out the death wherever there is sin.
4. Christ alone fulfills the law, and so is the point, the “thing” that law wants, needs, and demands — and which sinners cannot give.
Luther is very precise on this matter. Christ’s crucifixion and ministry do not abolish the law; he fulfills the law. But fulfilling is not the moment the law hands out its prize. Christ’s unexpected fulfillment of the law on the cross has a most dramatic effect on the law, evacuating or emptying it.
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[Sunday] Groans & Glory - Rise
“Ack!” said Cathy. “Ugg!” said all the others when another situation comes up that is frustrating beyond words. But Jesus comes into those groans and helps us see glory is being produced through them.
Questions for the Week
What are some things that cause you to groan in life?
Read Romans 8:18-30. What does God do with our groanings?
Share a time when God brought restoration or new life in the midst of groanings.
Go to God in prayer, and share some of your present groanings. How does knowing Jesus is present with you give you peace in your groanings?
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What Had happened at Grace this week.
CareNet walk Pictures and Update
Phil says thanks for the support.
Phil says thanks for the support.
Update At Bottom.
Hey Walk Warriors!
Well, that’s a wrap for our 2021 Walk for Life, and as we watch the funds raised continue to be tabulated, we stand AMAZED at the goodness of God and His people! As I type this, our website, (www.walkforlifetc.com), reflects $94,077 raised which is 116% of our $81k goal. WOW. JUST WOW!!! We estimate that approximately 522 were in attendance on Saturday to enjoy the 24 fun booths, petting zoo, pony rides, live worship, yummy food, and Star Wars Legion!! SO MUCH of that success is owed to YOU, our AMAZING Walk Liaisons!
We are eternally grateful for the time and attention you devoted to serving the Lord and Care Net by helping us bridge the gap between us and the local church and community to promote our 2021 Walk for Life and increase awareness of our mission and ministry. I know I say it often, but it is only because it is TRUE and heartfelt: We could NOT do what we do without YOU!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! Please stay tuned for more updates to the fundraising totals…God is not finished yet!
With Deep Appreciation & Gratitude,
Relax, It's Me: How Jesus Saves Us From Doubt and Despair
For those of us who recognize the disciples’ despair in ourselves, Jesus comes with the same word: “Relax, it’s me. Peace be with you.”
Read the Article Here https://www.1517.org/articles/relax-its-me-how-jesus-saves-us-from-doubt-and-despair
One of the finest sinners who ever lived was Thomas, the doubting one. The risen Jesus breaks in on him and his fellow disciples shaking in their boots, wondering if the religious leaders’ goons would get them like they did their crucified rabbi. Our Lord, on that day and today, has to deal with the first two moves of a sinful heart: doubt and despair.
These guys had spent the past three years with Jesus. They were witnesses to the signs and wonders that John relates in his gospel. They’d seen the signs, but they couldn’t read ‘em very well. Not even Mary Magdalene’s first sermon to them about Christ’s resurrection did them much good. They just couldn’t see it. “Okay, fine; he’s not dead. That’s not going to help us when we have the same folks breathing down our necks who killed him.”
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Read the Article Here https://www.1517.org/articles/relax-its-me-how-jesus-saves-us-from-doubt-and-despair
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[Sunday] Precious Trials - Rise
Gold, a precious metal, becomes more so when it goes through the refiner's fire. Peter also went through the fire as he denied his own savior. But Jesus restored Peter, giving him the eyes to see how his suffering connected to Jesus'.
Questions for the Week
What is your greatest hope in life? When have you failed to achieve that hope?
Read 1 Peter 1:1-9. What is the hope for you that Peter talks about?
How is the hope of Jesus’ resurrection different from other hopes you have in your life?
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What Had happened at Grace this week.
O Lord, Have Mercy Upon Us, Internet Sinners
The practice of confession isn’t universally practiced in the Church, let alone the Internet. “Spare all those who confess their faults”
Read article At https://mbird.com/2021/04/o-lord-have-mercy-upon-us-internet-sinners/
Recently, the Internet has made me aware of an interesting fact about myself: I’m wrong about everything! The books I read, the music I listen to, the type of credit card I use to pay for the aforementioned books and music, even having a credit card — it’s all bad! Wrong! “NO! How dare you consider this!?!” shouts the Internet as I read the two-hundredth review on Amazon for a new bike helmet so I can protect my (ignorant) brain. “Should I even be buying things from Amazon?” I wonder, reading a tweet about the latest controversy surrounding the corporate giant.
If Dr. Suess (another recently controversial person on the Internet) were to write a rhyme about what it’s like to be an Internet user in 2021, it might go something like this:
Your dog, your bike,
Your God, your likes;
You’ve chosen bad
And made me mad!
You were wrong,
You don’t belong!
So long, goodbye!
xoxo, Internet Guy
I have read articles telling me it’s wrong to “own” my golden retriever (I should’ve adopted from a shelter) or that the bike I bought actually sucks (I should’ve bought that more expensive, “better” one). I’m a bad person for believing in God. I’m a bad person for not believing the right things about God. Even the choices I didn’t know could be controversial, like what can of beans I buy at the grocery store, was brought to my attention by the Internet as a matter of great social, political, and ethical importance. Choose wrong and I’m bad. But choose right, and … I’m still bad, according to Internet Guy.
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Rise - Hope in the Resurrection
The resurrection of Jesus was an event that surprised the earliest followers of Jesus and forced them to rethink everything they thought they knew about Jesus, themselves, and the world. They believed that the risen Jesus inaugurated God’s new creation, making it possible to become new and different kinds of humans in every aspect of our lives.
The resurrection of Jesus was an event that surprised the earliest followers of Jesus and forced them to rethink everything they thought they knew about Jesus, themselves, and the world. They believed that the risen Jesus inaugurated God’s new creation, making it possible to become new and different kinds of humans in every aspect of our lives.
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[Sunday] Road to Seeing - Rise
They were dejected, “We thought that Jesus was going to take over the world, but the world ended up taking him.” They said to this stranger they met on the road. But who is that Stranger and how can this trip down the road give us eyes to see.
Questions for the Week
Describe a time when you had a conversation with someone and thought they were someone else?
Read Luke 24:13-35. What do you think the two disciples thought was going to happen when Jesus was in Jerusalem? Why do you think they were disappointed?
Why didn’t they recognize Jesus? In what ways have you failed to see Jesus and his way in your life?
How does Jesus restore their “sight”? How does Jesus show you His way today?
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What Had happened at Grace this week.
Christmas expectations are often Joshed. Yet the name Emmanuel breaks all expectations as Jesus comes to be with us.