News and Announcements Christ Lutheran Church Eagan Minnesota
January 31st, 2016
Verse of the Week:
“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13)
This Week in Sunday school:
The students will be studying “The Presentation of Jesus,” through several verses in Luke (New Testament 7 - Lesson 6 of “Growing In Christ”). Josh remembered the word reconcile from when he and his
Reconciled
Josh's dad had work to do with the survey tools. The drawings needed to be accurate to give a realistic picture of what the complex had been like. Josh and his dad spent many hours recalculating the depth of the different rooms and the height of the walls against the floors. The dimensions for the stairs, the pillars and columns, the cisterns for holding water, and the baking ovens needed to be verified. As Josh rolled a rock down a water channel on one of the walls, he thought of how the walls needed to line up, or else the rock would fall to the ground. Properly aligned walls allowed the rock to roll on and on through the water channel for the entire length of the wall. There was one place where an earthquake had shifted a wall, and that made the rock stop rolling. If the aqueduct were to be reused, the wall would need to be realigned, or reconciled. There were also a few drawings where the lines for a wall had been started on different papers. Josh's dad needed to redraw some walls so they would be correct. He called it "reconciling" the line—making everything line up correctly.
father had read 2 Corinthians 5. There, reconcile described Jesus' suffering and death, which had reconciled, or brought into an unbroken line, the relationship between God and humans. Through Jesus' work on the cross and faith created through Holy Baptism, God's grace could freely and fully flow to believers. Reconciliation for Christians means that the channel of God's grace, which once was broken and out of line because of sin, was made straight by Jesus. Jesus' life and death allow God's grace, love, and forgiveness to flow to believers on earth. Taken from My Devotions Winter 2015-2016, January 27th Devotion Contributors: Leanna Christopher, Ed Grube, Jane Heitman, Cheryl Honoree, Valerie Schultz, Julie Stiegemeyer & edited by Mark Sengele Copyright 2015 Corcordia Publishing House 3558 S. Jefferson Ave. St. Louis Mo 63118 Placed in this week’s N&A by Gabriel Hartog