Pastor Barb’s Blog

From the Pen of Pastor Barb Lemke “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Trusting in the Lord and leaning on the Lord’s direction, as opposed to our own, is what we as Christians are to be doing day in and day out. The problem is that we don ‘t....

From the Pen of Pastor Barb Lemke Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-8 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, God is always actively making a difference in our lives. There are times when God seems more able to make a difference because we choose to...

From the Pen of Pastor Barb Lemke “O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.” Psalm 139:1-2 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We are now in the season of Lent, which is a time of “spiritual discipline?” During Lent it is customary in the Lutheran tradition to commit ourselves to more than a Sunday observance of worship by incorporating Wednesday evenings into...

From the Pen of Pastor Barb Lemke “But Jonah ran away from the Lord. . . . . .Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.: Jonah 1:3b, 17  Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Within this month we will begin our journey through the season of Lent together. Lent is a forty-day season (excluding Sundays) which falls between Epiphany and Easter. Historically, this...

From the Pen of Pastor Barb Lemke The focus this Christmas Eve was on the way God “interrupted” our world through the birth of the Christ child and how God still comes in and through those times when we find our lives “interrupted” today. Bethlehem’s world had been “interrupted” by the census takers as the daily lives of the people had to change to welcome those coming from far and wide to be counted by the Roman government. I am...

From the Pen of Pastor Barb Lemke Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, November is almost over and we are fast approaching the Season of Advent. The time of expectation… the time of anticipation… the time of preparation. Our world so quickly passes by Thanksgiving, racing on toward the day of Christmas so sales can flourish! While the world is in the fast pace of skipping past the true meaning of the “Season”, we in the church attempt to focus...