Thoughts on a Memorial Eve

Today is Memorial Day Eve.  I'd like to take this time to give tribute to those who served.   So many of my students have faithfully served in very dangerous places like Iraq and Afghanistan.  Its quite a choice to enlist and know that most likely you'll end up where bullets will fly.  But, this year a host of my seniors were already signed to go to basic. May God bless them and protect them from harm.

In our service today we looked at the wonderful freeing life of those in Christ.  We appreciated the way of the believer as a servant to righteousness instead of a servant to sin.  Its a bit of a paradox in that when you are in Christ you are free-not a slave.   Anyone who thinks that being in Christ is somehow stifling and hard has got it wrong.  In Christ we are living under grace, Romans tells us.  Under grace the believer lives free from sin.  The desire to sin habitually is gone.  No one is perfect-but the desire to do right dominates those in Christ.   Today we celebrate this fact.  May Trinity take on the flavor and aroma of the grace walk.

Romans 6:18  ¹⁸ Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

A Summer for Growing

I'm trusting the Lord that He will help us to grow this summer. Prayer is needed to uplift and encourage all of us to be bold in our witness and consistent in our testimony.  May we seek God's Word and direction for the next several weeks.

Congratulations go out to Jackie Borgen who graduated this week.  We will send her off with prayer and loving words of encouragement on Sunday night.