Weekday Devotions for 09/30/2015

Pastor Al Debelak's Weekday Devotions. View this email in your browser Weekday Devotions Redeemer Lutheran 09/30/2015 edition Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Oct 01, 2015 05:50 am The Reign of God as Coming Forth. Comments to: adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Reign of God as Coming Forth may be embarrassing - because it simple appears. In that way, it may come within the words or actions of a child - a simple question about how and why things are done. Or maybe, the questions and comments that are from adults but are quite child-like. In other words in the world of big ideas and big actions and big egos, the heart of the Reign of God becomes visible and we all must step back. It is golden. It is vitally alive. It is unlike the ways of power we all know do well. Being caught in that moment of seeing or hearing or being touched by the Coming Forth of God's Reign may be halting - cause us to feel embarrassed because we possibly begin to consider how far we can go away from such a Reign. Now, embarrassment can bring about anger. It need not. It really needs to lead to honesty and vulnerability so that the cycle of the world's power will not have such an easy way with us. O God of New Life and All Hopefulness, awaken us - breathe life into us - shake us and rock us into the reality of your loving Reign. Amen. Read in browser » Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Sep 30, 2015 05:50 am The Reign of God as Coming Forth. Comments to: adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Reign of God as Coming Forth is not a hard and fast rule that breaks in to set everyone straight. More than likely it is a conversation - a helping hand - a gift of time - a bending of the rules. It seems as though folks turn to the bible or religion to get some hard andfast rules to follow. It can carry the sense of a black and white world. And yet, the Reign of God will never be (nor has it ever been) a rule book or law book ready to catch folks at doing something they should not be doing. I find that we are most often handed ways to be in relationship. That means that those 'rules' may come to be a part of a journey into a dialogue about the well-being of all. The Reign of God as Coming Forth nurtures relationships through honest discussion and compassionate listening and loving action. Those actions are Coming Forth whenever the Reign of God taps us on the shoulder and offers us the opportunity to relate with one another out of a position of gracious love, honor, and respect. O God of New Life and All Hopefulness, let your loving presence hold us and deliver us into a new way of entering into this day. 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 09/29/2015

Pastor Al Debelak's Weekday Devotions. View this email in your browser Weekday Devotions Redeemer Lutheran 09/29/2015 edition Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Sep 29, 2015 05:50 am The Reign of God as Coming Forth. Comments to: adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Reign of God as Coming Forth keeps flowing. We can walk away from its life - but it keep flowing and it keeps being the power that moves the lives of God's people to new places. There are so many choices to make. Many of those choices move away from the life of the Reign of God - but they are enticing and seem to be just what we want. I wonder though, if our movements away from the flow of God's Reign really take us to a new place and life. I think that most often the various ways we choose to go eventually keep looking like those places we have already been. Maybe that is because we usually follow our own image - even when it seems to be packaged differently. In other words, many of our choices usually are all about me. But the Reign of God as Coming Forth will take us away from our way and it will introduce us into a mind and heart and walk that is not programmed like so much of our lives. People will still recognize us - but they will also see something different and new. They may even ask about it. O God of New Life and All Hopefulness, spill over into our lives and help us move along your stream of eternal promises. 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 09/28/2015

Pastor Al Debelak's Weekday Devotions. View this email in your browser Weekday Devotions Redeemer Lutheran 09/28/2015 edition Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Sep 28, 2015 05:50 am The Reign of God as Coming Forth. Comments to: adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Reign of God as Coming Forth brings to mind a broken water pipe or a fresh spring pumping up from the ground. There is nostopping it - unless you bring in all sorts of equipment to put it all back in place or cap it somehow or bottle it. That gushing water keeps bubbling up and spilling over and running wherever it is able. This Reign of God does not wait for us to tap into its power and resources and new life. It comes. Personally, I am never sure when I will be awakened by its presence. And then, all of the sudden I am drenched by its presence and I cannot stop it from flowing. This may not be anything dramatic. It may simply be an insight brought on by an incident in the day that takes my eyes to heights of life within life that is nourished by our God. It is a refreshing time that is also one that helps me se that there is something more in the world around me that calls me to act in the way of Jesus. The Reign of God as Coming Forth may cause me to go another way or simply live through having my life reminded of the water of baptism and the life into which it invites me. O God of New Life and All Hopefulness, your Reign is a constant flowing source of refreshment. We need to be refreshed and let out into the world to live as the Christ whose life becomes our hope and refreshment. 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 09/25/2015

Pastor Al Debelak's Weekday Devotions. View this email in your browser Weekday Devotions Redeemer Lutheran 09/25/2015 edition Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Sep 25, 2015 05:50 am The Reign of God as Coming Forth. Comments to adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Reign of God as Coming Forth makes us look again at that which we know so well. It all happens so that we will look again and question and look out over other things with the same kind of questions. Maybe we need to ask if the Reign really is Coming Forth in, with, and under the life we lead and the life of the followers of Jesus with whom we gather. We need not fear the ways we fall short or have chosen to follow other gods along the way - as we all do. The Reign of God as Coming Forth cares not about what has been. It is moving into the day at hand and what will be. We are always invited into that reality that is unfolding. Therefore it is vital for us to listen and look and move into the Coming Forth of God's Reign today. O God of New Life and All Hopefulness, as your rescue us from ourselves, you always promise to deliver us into new life. Take us now and always into your way. 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 09/24/2015

Pastor Al Debelak's Weekday Devotions. View this email in your browser Weekday Devotions Redeemer Lutheran 09/24/2015 edition Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Sep 24, 2015 05:50 am The Reign of God as Coming Forth. Comments to: adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Reign of God as Coming Forth may be abrupt and right in our faces. That is it may be right there in front of us. It may not be complete - but it may be enough to cause us to look and think again about all that we intend to do and be. This week, there was the wonder-filled image of Pope Francis getting into a Fiat and then rolling down the windows. He may be criticized for some things onto which he holds. But wow he has put to life something the grand business of the Vatican has been unable to do. In fact, his simplicity of action seems to be sermonic. Some of those who criticize him for not going far enough in certain areas could learn from his ability to go way beyond the whole rolling show of the western economic culture. The Reign of God as Coming Forth keeps coming even when it is not here in all of its fullness. I really don't think we could handle all of its fullness. Too many one issue folks want their issue or their life to be the center of all that is to take place. Therefore, I think they miss the Coming Forth of the Reign of God as it is moving in to claim the day. Maybe a bit of the Pope humility would help all of us see God's Reign arriving all around us and we could then celebrate even when it is not all about me or my way. O God of New Life and All Hopefulness, keep coming into our lives outside the images we know so well. Make us uncomfortable until all are gathered in and made whole and your peace Reigns. 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