Temp Challenge Returns + Eye Progress + Pastors as Fathers
Leckband Temp Challenge
It's still August, for crying out loud! Here are today's results, thanks to Weather Underground, 6:35a, CDT. (6) Balmiest Leckbands, Eagan, MN, 65; (5) Garrison, IA, 61; (3 TIE) Lincoln, NE, Beatrice, NE, 54; (2) Ventura, IA, 52; (1) Norfolk, NE, 49.
Cataract Update
My left eye continues to improve. Reading is still a challenge, but I am beginning to see better w/o my glasses. Yesterday I had a follow-up check-up, & got a good report. My right eye gets done on 9/18.
PASTORS ARE FATHERS
“God also fathers us through the pastors that He gives to
us. In the Divine Service every pastor represents Christ to us, & through
Him, God the Father. Pastors thus speak the Word of the Father & do the
Father’s work. Those who listen to a pastor as their teacher hear the voice of
God the Son (Luke 10:16) speaking on behalf of the Father. Those who receive a
pastor as God’s spokesman receive both the Son & His divine Father (Matt.
10:40; John 13:20). Those who reject the Word of God spoken by the pastor as
God’s spokesman reject both the Son & His heavenly Father (Luke 10:16).
“A
pastor therefore does not just speak Christ’s Word to his people, but, like the
Son, he also represents the Father to them. As the pastor exercises his
ministry, he speaks the Father’s pardon, welcome, acceptance, approval, love,
& blessing to His faithful children. And all this is done in both a
physical & a spiritual way. He does these things with his human body as he
is commissioned by Christ & empowered by the Holy Spirit. Thus God the
Father fathers us spiritually through the men that sevre with Christ in the
ministry of the gospel.” From “Spiritual
Fathers,” by John Kleinig, Lutheran Witness, June/July 2018.
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