By Pastor Tracey Leslie
From John, chapter 4 Everyone loves a good story, right? Take a moment to think: what is one of your favorite stories? Perhaps it is a novel or a movie. But if we really think about it, our favorite stories are often closer to home. By the time of my birth, my mother’s father had had multiple heart attacks and strokes and was in pretty poor health. But he was such a kind, gentle man that I loved to hear my mom tell stories about Pop Pop in his younger years. One of my favorite was the story of how one afternoon Pop Pop had fallen asleep in his recliner. He wore spectacles. My mom and her siblings got shaving cream and they very carefully smeared shaving cream across each lens. When Pop Pop woke up, he leapt out of his recliner, startled by a world smothered in white foam. The kids giggled at how they had tricked him and they weren’t punished because their father was so good-natured. As I said, by the time I came along, no one was permitted to startle Pop Pop because of his heart and I never saw him move quickly. So, I loved that picture my mom’s story painted of my grandfather. Everyone loves a good story.
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By Pastor Tracey Leslie
Few verses of scripture are better-known or more appropriate for Lent than John 3:16 (KJV): For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. But not many of us know the verses that follow: John 3:17 (NRSV) "Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Those who trust in him are not condemned; but those who do not trust are condemned already, because they have not trusted in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. 20 For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. 21 But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God." Those who do what is true come to the light, making visible deeds that are done in God. |
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