Greetings to all of you in the name of our Savior Jesus Christ. I survived another very busy weekend. Friday I drove up to Hibbing, which is about an hour away, and met the very nice LWML ladies from Grace Lutheran there. They had supported me through the seminary as the pastor there was a friend of mine first year. They had originally planned to come to my ordination, but miscommunication happened and they didn't know it was a morning service. So I ran up and had a nice lunch and visit with them, and it gave me a good opportunity to thank them. Then I came back and wrote my sermon for Sunday since the week got away from me. Later that night I went to the high school football game. It was the rival game between Hermantown and Proctor (the next town over). Hermantown smoked them 68 to 0. It was so much fun to be at a high school football game on a Friday night again.
Then Saturday morning, five of us guys went to a church family's house to split wood. They live an hour away, but are very faithful members. They have eight kids and they heat their house purely with wood all winter. The dad hurt his back and has not been able to cut or split wood. So we had a couple guys running chain saws cutting down more trees, and a couple guys running the splitter. Their kids stacked the split wood all day. It was a fun day and a good opportunity to serve a family in need. Then I had to get back to church to learn my sermon and be ready for Saturday night service.
Services Saturday night and Sunday morning went well. I got to be crazy and goofy with the kids in the children's sermon which I always enjoy. Then I spent Sunday afternoon grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning like a real adult. Then last night we had our pot luck and Bible study we will have every Sunday night now. I know I will get fed really well every Sunday night now, and it is a good group that gets together for our study.
Today, I had a hole list of stuff I was going to get done, and then got in the cleaning mood. I cleaned out a closet and the fridge in the kitchen. They had both been needing it for quite some time. And the best part is, I still got my hole list done. Now I am getting ready to go to the high school soccer game and then I am actually going brewery hopping. And yes, it is for work. I want to host a night out for the younger generations, so I am going to research which one will work with us. I mean I could try to call, but why not go there and sample a little too. :)
My devotion today was talking about Jesus thanking the Father for saving Him from the depths of Hades. It struck me as kind of odd, but I realized that Jesus Himself did suffer Hell as He went to pronounce His victory over the devil. Jesus saw how awful it was, He experienced how excruciating it is to be out of the Father's grace. And so He thanks the Father for His mighty wonders of saving Him. And I starting thinking that I am glad I don't have to say that prayer. I don't have to worry about being saved from the depths of Hades, since because of Christ I will never be there. And yet that seemed odd too. I should pray that prayer even more for that fact. I should sing His praises that He DID save me from the depths of Hades, so now I never will have to experience it. It is one more thing Christ did for me so I never will have to go through that. I most definitely deserve an eternal sentence to Hades, and yet thanks be to God, that since Christ has been there and has announced His victory over it, I never will have to be there. That is definitely worth a prayer of thanksgiving. SO, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, dear Lord for Your grace and mercy freely giving me my redemption and salvation in Christ Jesus. Amen.
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