April 18, 2019


PASTOR’S MESSAGE

​Friends,

Brothers and sisters, we have finally made it to Holy Week. Our long Lenten journey is almost over. As we bring our journey to a close it is fitting that we look back over these past weeks and decide if our meditations and sacrifices have been worth it. Do we feel any different? Do we view our problems and our situations any differently? Has our outlook on our life’s journey changed at all? My guess would be that, like me, you struggle to see fundamental changes. Very much like a broken record, every Lenten season, year after year, seems to end the same way: We are excited about Easter, but we are no closer to being truly receptive to its meaning than we were the day after New Year’s. It would be hypocritical for me to castigate you for this when I myself sometimes feel the same way. Instead, let me turn your attention back to Holy Week. For its message is clear: Whether we change or not, as long as our hearts are open to the Lord and we are willing to trust and show faith in his sacrifice and teachings, then that change shall come. Whether it is in this world or the next we shall be perfected and our faith shall grant us the gift of eternal life, a gift that was earned at an almost unimaginable cost. That is the lesson, the trauma, and the gift of Holy Week. Let us experience it all together.

Your Brother in Christ, Pastor Ernest

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