Originally posted on sinibaldo.wordpress.com:
Take 2.Pastors Dan Carlson, Tim Oslovich,Geoff Sinibaldo, and Dave Dalzellsitting at the beach at Camp Calumet.(We took the same picture last year!) I love camp. I truly do. I spent five summers in the midst of college and seminary on summer staff at Crossways – Pine Lake Camp in…
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Know leisure…
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 (NRSV) Christ healing the multitudes The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. AndContinue reading “Know leisure…”
Complain to the Lord…
Jeremiah 12:1-13 ESV Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive? You plant them, and they take root; they grow and produce fruit; you are near in their mouth andContinue reading “Complain to the Lord…”
Seek God
Acts 17:22-31 ESV So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship asContinue reading “Seek God”
Wonders of life and death and living like Jesus…
Well today is the second day of Citizens with the Saints the 2012 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s youth gathering. It has been an interesting two days… Just before leaving our hotel yesterday to walk to the Lutherdome a brother and sister from our group got the news that their grandfather passed away. We startedContinue reading “Wonders of life and death and living like Jesus…”
God can use you…
Colossians 1:15-23 (NRSV) God reconciles all things through Christ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers -all things have been created through him and forContinue reading “God can use you…”
How do you judge…
Luke 7:31-35 ESV “To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’ For John theContinue reading “How do you judge…”
God-incidence
Have you ever felt like someone was out to get you? Like there were clandestine meetings of people plotting your demise? That is where Paul is at today in our reading from Acts: When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till theyContinue reading “God-incidence”
Cry out to the Lord…
With my voice I cry out to the LORD; with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD. I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him. When my spirit faints within me, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.Continue reading “Cry out to the Lord…”