2-Minute Update for October 16, 2009
Note that items on this page will quickly become outdated. Pay close attention to dates given. Contact Pastor Borgwardt with questions regarding any of these topics.
Weeknight Bible Study
I Can't Read Your Mind - Mondays, 6:30 p.m. at The Berkshire Apartments
Telling others about Jesus involves knowing what, where, when and how to speak -- and who you're speaking to. Join this practical study on how to communicate the message everyone needs to know. Class led by Dave Savatski.
Food Drive
We'll be having a food drive beginning at the Chili Fest and going through Thanksgiving to help Living Word families in need of assistance. Anything not taken by Living Word members will be taken to the Waukesha Food Bank. Any food is welcome. Also consider donating a gift card to a grocery store. Thanks in advance for seizing an opportunity to serve others as Christ served us.
Grace Moment -- You Are Not Your Own
The magnificent victory that Christ won on his cross was not only for the purpose of liberating us from our worst nightmares -- sin's guilt and power, the grave, damnation in hell. Christ Jesus set us free, but not to wander on our own. He set us free so that he could then claim us as his own.
He desires nothing less than to remake us in his image: to think holy thoughts, love him and other people, and find joy in being of service to his grand agenda. St. Paul wrote, "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body." (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
The best advice that Christian parents can give their teenagers about going out on dates is to remember at all times who they are. They are not sovereign and independent agents. They are not their own. They are connected to a family. And they are loved and claimed by the Savior who died so that they could live.
(Thanks to Pastor Mark Jeske of Time of Grace for his devotion)
In Christ,
Pastor Borgwardt
