GOD CALLING YOUR NAME
Chances are it is easy to question God in trying or desperate times, to question in the heartrending moments of life how there could be a God who is loving or good or near. But would you see things differently if you heard God calling your name, if you saw Christ carry it to the cross and beyond it? Before the throne my surety stands; my name is written on his hands. Would it change your question if you considered the God who both knew us before we were woven together in our mothers’ wombs, but who also stepped into the world as one of us to place his own name in our hands, initiating a relationship, presenting hospitably the love of a God who wants and wills to be known.
Jill Carattini, Slice of Infinity
INCARNATION
"Thus the most precious treasure & the strongest consolation we Christians have is this: that the Word, the true & natural Son of God, became man, with flesh & blood like that of any other human; that He became incarnate for our sakes in order that we might enter into great glory, that our flesh & blood, skin & hair, hands & feet, stomach & back might reside in heaven as God does, & in order that we might boldly defy the devil & whatever else assails us." Martin Luther, The Lutheran Witness, Dec. 2019
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY MONTH TOUGHT
"Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes." Lewis Grizzard
TEMP CHALLENGE
When I saw our temperature this morning, I was fairly confident that we would win today's Leckband Temp Challenge. I was wrong. Ratings based on Accuweather at 6:55 a.m.
- CONGRATULATIONS! Ventura, IA, -9
- Norfolk, NE, -8
- Eagan, MN, -7
- Garrison, IA, -1
- Lincoln, NE, 2
- Beatrice, NE, 5
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