Weekday Devotions for 08/31/2015

Pastor Al Debelak's Weekday Devotions. View this email in your browser Weekday Devotions Redeemer Lutheran 08/31/2015 edition Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Aug 31, 2015 05:50 am The Followers of Jesus as well ordered. Comment to: adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Followers of Jesus as well ordered sets us up as a people who have a way of life into which we are moving this day. The day is well ordered - it is ordered by the vision of God's Reign. We are not a people who simply do as we please because God loves us no matter what we do. We have been handed a way of life that reflects the image of God. It has an order - it has a character - it produces a pattern within everyday life. The Follower of Jesus as well ordered need to practice that ordered life. Our lives need to be order - disciplined - in the way of peacemaking so that when the tensions of the day call out for violence and war, we will walk in the ways of peace. We must be well ordered in such times. We are to be able to say 'hey, not that way' - 'this way.' Often, I need you to help keep my day in order - within the order of God's Reign. O God of New Life and All Hopefulness, lead us and guide us this day. Amen. Read in browser » Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Aug 28, 2015 05:50 pm The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary. Comments to: adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary reminds us that God's Reign is always pulling us - all of us - each of us into the love of God even as we are simply just quite ordinary. It is not what we do or what we say what we will do or how we go about ritualizing what we will do. Rather, within the reality of being quite ordinary God is always taking who we are and inspiring us to be exactly that - the one God loves. The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary are inspired to trust God at God's word and we then unfold our gifts within the space of time we exist. Ordinary saints show ordinary love and mercy and compassion and justice and it is enough to quite change the world. O God of New Life and All Hopefulness, unleash your will within our lives. When we are afraid to live within your Reign just as we are, let your Spirit wrestle with us and draw us in. Amen. Read in browser » Recent Articles: Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Copyright © 2015 Redeemer Lutheran Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a member of the Redeemer community Our mailing address is: Redeemer Lutheran Church 1555 South James Road Columbus, Oh 43227 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

Weekday Devotions for 08/27/2015

Pastor Al Debelak's Weekday Devotions. View this email in your browser Weekday Devotions Redeemer Lutheran 08/27/2015 edition Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Aug 27, 2015 05:50 am The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary. Comments to: adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary begin within the that one would consider nothing at all. We are the people on the bus - at the market - taking care of the lawn - feeding the hungry - standing alongside those left out - advocating for the disenfranchised. See - we are ordinary people living the quite ordinary lives of saints of God. Within the realm of ordinary comes an edge. It is the edge that keeps cutting down into the truth of the time. It is the edge that comes within ordinary conversation and actions. The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary are aware of how ordinary life can become oppressive to some folks. Therefore, we walk right into those situations and unmask the powers that create such oppression. These are within the quite ordinary acts of truth-telling, questioning, sticking our noses in the business at hand. All done in quite ordinary ways - like Jesus in the synagogue - just an ordinary Sabbath gathering of folks. O God of New Life and All Hopefulness, keep us aware of the ordinary power within your Reign and let this day become opened up by your Spirit. Amen. Read in browser » Recent Articles: Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Copyright © 2015 Redeemer Lutheran Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a member of the Redeemer community Our mailing address is: Redeemer Lutheran Church 1555 South James Road Columbus, Oh 43227 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

Weekday Devotions for 08/26/2015

Pastor Al Debelak's Weekday Devotions. View this email in your browser Weekday Devotions Redeemer Lutheran 08/26/2015 edition Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Aug 26, 2015 05:50 am The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary. Comments to: adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary will not be identifiable as being religious people in a traditional sense. We will be you neighbor or stranger or friend who - within the ordinary acts of the day - put to life a character that makes something unique about ordinary actions. Instead of going along with the ordinary violence of the day we will take part in a peaceable walk. We will walk within the context of our everyday life together and yet we will attempt to not flow into the patterns of violence that seem so natural to so many. So acts of forgiveness and grace and service and justice and mercy will become quite ordinary. It may be that our ordinary begins to seem out of place - or maybe - something that attracts others. O God of New Life and All Hopefulness, make your ways ordinary among us. Amen. Read in browser » Recent Articles: Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Copyright © 2015 Redeemer Lutheran Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a member of the Redeemer community Our mailing address is: Redeemer Lutheran Church 1555 South James Road Columbus, Oh 43227 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

Weekday Devotions for 08/25/2015

Pastor Al Debelak's Weekday Devotions. View this email in your browser Weekday Devotions Redeemer Lutheran 08/25/2015 edition Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Aug 25, 2015 05:50 am The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary. Comments to: adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary take on the way of Jesus in, with, and under all the events of the day. We are then a people whose faithfulness to following Jesus introduce us to some extraordinary ways of living in the world. Though we are quite ordinary, we can be people who take time to care for others. This is quite ordinary yet it is not aways the case in the world around us. We are invited to make caring for others - any and all others - quite ordinary. Therefore, people not like us become those with whom we extend a hand and even offer our lives - our quite ordinary lives. To act in that kind of way to those who are 'other' disturbs the status quo of the society. The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary walk within the day as though the character of God's Reign - in all of its love for all - is how we define being ordinary - quite ordinary. O God of New Life and All Hopefulness, expand the life that is so ordinary among us and let it include your blessed Reign. Amen. Read in browser » Recent Articles: Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Copyright © 2015 Redeemer Lutheran Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a member of the Redeemer community Our mailing address is: Redeemer Lutheran Church 1555 South James Road Columbus, Oh 43227 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

Weekday Devotions for 08/24/2015

Pastor Al Debelak's Weekday Devotions. View this email in your browser Weekday Devotions Redeemer Lutheran 08/24/2015 edition Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Aug 24, 2015 05:50 am The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary. Comments to: adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Follower of Jesus as quite ordinary is meant to emphasize the point that we are nothing more than anyone else. We are quite ordinary people who are engaged in a grand drama of hopefulness and joy to the world. There is no need to be anyone more than who I am. The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary bring the promises of God's Reign right into the middle of the life everyone lives. It is not saved for another time. It is not saved for another set of people. The promise of the coming of God's Reign is one that transformed the ordinary and claims all the life that comes to be right here and now. The Followers of Jesus as quite ordinary bring a vision of hopefulness right into the backyards of our lives. O God of New Life and All Hopefulness, open our hearts to you coming Reign even as we seem to nothing more than ordinary folks. Amen. Read in browser » Recent Articles: Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Copyright © 2015 Redeemer Lutheran Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a member of the Redeemer community Our mailing address is: Redeemer Lutheran Church 1555 South James Road Columbus, Oh 43227 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences