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Pastor's Reflections & Various Sermons

Monthly faith reflections and other ponderings and sermons from the pastor.

As you prepare for worship

7/27/2019

 
​“Because everyone who asks receives,” Jesus promised.

It takes a leap of faith to do as Jesus said. To ask, to search, to knock requires surrendering control, letting go of false identities, risking loss. Many--maybe most--are not able or willing to do it.

Maybe that’s because human love is always limited, and what came naturally in early youth we soon learned led too often to humiliation and even suffering. But risky as it may be, to stop asking, searching, knocking kills the soul. 

In Jesus, a crucified God breathes new life into us and woos us back to our true selves, to a daring relationship with God. What will it take for you to lean into the loss, the risk, the rejection, trusting that on the other side you will find the very bread of life? Ask God for this.

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St. Paul is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Southeastern Iowa Synod.
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