St. John's Lutheran Church Red Bud

What a. wonderous gift Christ gives!!

We need someone with skin on, a resurrected Savior, to walk us through this dark hallway of life.

Jesus has authority to forgive sins...and he gives it to us!

Palms waved - victory, complete & total victory is ours

A good pilot knows how to get people safely through the storm.

Looking at the prophet Ezekiel we see that while he spoke the words, it is God's Word that brought life. So also with pastors - they are called to speak God's Word, but it is God who gives the power to give life.

If God is all-powerful and loving, then why do we, His people, suffer? The discisples asked this assuming it was punishment for sin. Jesus points us in another direction - God uses our suffering to draw us closer to Him, to display His glory in our lives, to bring us salvation.

I messed up the timeline of the Israelites and when they came to Mt. Sinai, but the heart, the truth of the message, is unaffected. No one called me out on it, but I caught it as I listened again.

We encounter Job chapter 3 and learn that we must endure suffering by going through it. How? Listen in.

Are we saved by having all the answers?

No.

But we continue to draw closer to Jesus as we dig deeper in His Word, like Nicodemas. Beginning at John 3, then John 7, finally at John 19, see how his journey can be a model for ours.