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From Pastor Jay I'm not sure why anyone would want to live in a miserable place where you're not even safe from the cold in the middle of summer. At least, as a Floridian, I can take solace in knowing that I won't have to wear a sweatshirt until many months from now. The residents of Milwaukee just don't have that peace of knowing winter is over. In some ways, we look for the peace of knowing winter is over in our lives as well. We want to know that the suffering is over, the surprises are over, or the work is over. We want to take solace in knowing that it's going to be warm for at least a few more months. The Israelites in this past Sunday's Old Testament lesson (Exodus 19) were looking for that kind of peace, and it seems like God offers it at first. He says, "You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself..." It sounds like things are over. We're home. We're safe now. But if you've ever even glanced at the book of Exodus, you realize that there's a whole lot of chapters after 19. It's not over. In fact, it's just beginning. The story isn't over, the plot is still twisting. As Christians sometimes we're tricked by the devil into thinking that just because we're Christians now that everything will be fine and dandy - that we're home and we're safe - that there are no surprises on the horizon. The devil appreciates our thinking so, because he knows that if we are dense, dumb, and naive enough to believe that there are no surprises ahead, we're also dense enough to fall into his other traps. Still, it is interesting what the last few lines in that story from Exodus are. The people promise "all that the Lord has spoken we will do," and then God promises "Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe you forever." God's promise is an enduring one. He doesn't tell Moses that this belief is something that will last for a few months, or a year, or even 40 years. No, this promised belief lasts forever. It lasts throughout our lives and into the resurrection. This belief is actually more constant than any peace that we had been looking for. This peace is with us no matter what circumstances surround us. This hope is with us in the midst of all the changes of our lives. This promise is that God will speak to you, and you will hear His Word, not for a month or for a year - but forever. In Christ, Pastor Jay Clear
Your Calendars! New and
Important
Calendar Items! June 22nd - The 6th
Sunday After Pentecost
Join us at 6pm for +Vespers+ Guitar-led Worship. We continue with our new series "InContext" which looks at 5 of Jesus' parables in the context of our lives today. Through the course of every "InContext" we come up with a parable of our own which seeks to tell the same message as Jesus' parable. (Dinner at 5:30) Food
and Grocery Drive for the InnBetween Family Joseph
and the Technicolor Dream Coat Join us Sunday night at 7:30pm for a
presentation of Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat. Tickets at
$15 for General Admission and $30 for the balcony with
hospitality. See Julia Landry or Mary Hafner for tickets or call
850 575 4309. Help Those Who Are Suffering in Myanmar! The country of
Myanmar is notorious for not allowing foreign missionaries or secular
aid workers into its borders to help even after this past cyclone which
hurt so many people. Please consider helping them during this
time of change. Click
this link to donate through Lutheran Hour Ministries which uses local
people to distribute aid unlike LCMS World Mission and other Lutheran
charities. Your gift will go to help those who need it! Directory
Coming Soon Helping University Lutheran Grow Did you check "Helping University Lutheran Grow" on your membership record request? Great! Be expecting a call from Pastor Jay soon! Would you like to be in this group that is helping University Lutheran grow? Email Pastor Jay. Missed a
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Forget Your Checkbook Last Sunday? Send in your offering via University Lutheran's web site. Prayer List (Please consider including the following in your
prayer life this week) Courage and peace in the midst of changes. That we may have the
courage to seek change in our lives away from sin
and toward God's will given to us by His Spirit. Jordan Snyder and all
who work with her this summer in trials and tribulations. Thanksgiving for
fathers in our lives. Safe travel for incoming freshmen and those who are coming for orientation. That students may
live out their vacations well as final projects and tests come due for
this summer session. Thanksgiving for
Lutheran campus ministries at other schools and God's blessing on their
efforts to bring glory to His name. ...and that our
prayers may be joined with the prayers of all God's
saints here on earth. Weekly
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