Pastor Patrick’s Ponderings
Grace and peace from God our Father, and from Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.
The deadline for this article is February 14th which means that I am going to have to write this article prior to my being installed. What it was that I said in my first sermon at Holy Trinity, about being thrown into the deep water, about sinking or swimming, about trusting that God has a plan for you. I usually live my sermons before I write them, but this time I am living into the words of my sermon and trusting in God that we continue to make headway. Starting as a pastor at a new congregation just before lent is like getting your CPA license just before tax season. You know that you will be quite busy quickly.
Many thanks to those that made the journey up to Westlake for the Service of Ordination on January 30th. It was a joyous celebration with many friends, family, and clergy. I was so pleased to see so many from Holy Trinity. I think that you may be as excited as I am to start working together in community for the Kingdom of God.
In order to get to know everyone at Holy Trinity, I would like to get together in cottage meetings with as many as I can. I need to get to know each of you personally and intimate gatherings of five or six people seems to be a good forum for that. I look forward to putting names and faces together as we journey as sisters and brothers in Christ.
As we start our new beginnings together we will start to use the new hymnal, Evangelical Lutheran Worship, otherwise known as the cranberry book, for the traditional service of worship at 8 AM. Those will be dedicated soon if they haven’t already by the time that this newsletter is published.
Some changes will also be coming for the contemporary worship at 10:30 AM on Sundays. It won’t be an entirely new format, I think, but will be more in keeping with other Lutheran contemporary worship formats.
Lent is already upon us and that means Lenten services on Wednesday at 7:00 PM. After the Ash Wednesday service, all of the readings for the services will come from Jonah. A curious prophet that did not want to do the will of God. Jesus said that the only sign that he would give the Pharisees that he had authority from God is the sign of Jonah, who was three days and three nights in the belly of a great fish and lived.
I pray that, this month, God will give me the energy and determination to meet and get to know as many in the congregation as I can. I pray that God give me the direction that this congregation should take and that I may lead unfailingly in His Word and do it all with the love of Christ Jesus in my heart.
Blessings of Peace in Christ Jesus
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