Pastor's Weekly Update

JULY 18, 2024

Hey Lakeshore—

Now that we have a better understanding of what it's like to live in “tornado alley,” we can go back again to summering hard.  I don’t know about you, but the winds near our home on Monday and Tuesday were ferocious.  I was amazed as I watched wind drive the rain in sheets across the front lawn.  At one point I remember looking for the funnel cloud because there was a rotation to the wind that I had never seen before.  It was lashing the trees and knocking down branches.  It was mesmerizing to watch.

Obviously, I was not paying any attention to the warnings going off on my phone, or on the news.  I kept watching to make sure everything was OK.  Although if all of a sudden something wasn’t OK, I’m not sure what I would have done.  Going to the basement didn’t occur to me.  I’ve never had to do that.  I’ve never seen a storm like this before.

The Bible gives us warnings about things to come, things we haven’t seen before.  What do we do with those warnings?  Do we ignore them like the high wind warnings we had this past week?  Do we just hope for the best?  Maybe we can put confidence in our own abilities to deal with the situation?  All have been tried before. 

But what do we do when God warns us?  This Sunday, we'll look at how one of the heroes in “Faith’s Hall of Fame” (Hebrews 11) responded to the warning of God and changed human history.

See you Sunday!

Love and blessings,
Pastor Brian