Faith

PASTOR’S CORNER, Pat Mann, Chaplain, Liberal Good Samaritan Center, Liberal

Malachi 3:7 (King James Version) – “Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.”

There are occasions when a believer’s zeal for God does not shine as brightly as it once did. A mother of a young boy once told me that when her son returned from a week’s Christian summer camp, having become a believer in Jesus at that time, he was highly inspired and interested in all things spiritual. As time passed, and having returned to normal day-to-day life, his light slowly began to grow dimmer, and his zeal for God waned.

PASTOR’S CORNER, Pat Mann, Chaplain, Liberal Good Samaritan Center, Liberal

JOHN 8: 31-32, 36  KJV: 31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. 

There are many ways that people may be held in bondage. A person does not have to be locked in a prison or jail to experience bondage. Some are in bondage of bad relationships. Others are in financial bondage.  Others are not free due to physical handicaps.  There are countries today whose citizens are enslaved. Still others are indeed locked behind prison and jail walls due to their own lawlessness.

PASTOR’S CORNER, Rev. Jason Toombs, Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Liberal

Our reading for this coming Sunday is Mark 5:21-43: 27 She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 28 For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” 29 And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. Also, 38 They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. 39 And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” 40 And they laughed at him.

PASTOR’S CORNER, Rev. Jason Toombs, Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Liberal

This Sunday we hear of Jesus and the Disciples from Mark 4: And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.