Greetings one and all,

It is a new year and an new time in my life and in the life of St. Timothy’s congregation.  So, “Be It Resolved” that Pastor David is committing to a weekly Monday blog.

For this first blog, I think I will limit my comments to the OUTSTANDING day we had yesterday at St Timothy Lutheran Church (STLC).  In addition to good attendance at worship we had some new faces, but we also had GREAT attendance at the AED training, coordinated by our congregation President, Diane McClain.  (Thanks again, Diane!)  At the suggestion of Dr. Charlie Wilkes, congregation Treasurer, we purchased an AED earlier this fall and now have about 30 some folks who have received training on how to use it!  All good stuff!

Another thought is that a “short” summary of the sermon highlights might be in order for these Monday reflections.   We of course celebrated the Baptism of Our Lord on Sunday; so the proclamation carried a baptismal thread, but what I tried to emphasize the most was the importance of the gifting of the Holy Spirit which we receive in our Baptisms.  I reminded the congregation that the POWER of the Holy Spirit that we have comes from the same Holy Spirit that blew over the waters at creation, and that as 2 Tim 1:7 reminds us, “… God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love…”  (NRSV), which means we have the POWER to do everything…. in love.  Oh, I also reminded the children that just as God called Jesus his beloved son, they are God’s beloved as well.  And from it all we got the whole, “comma, child of God” thing going…  I wouldn’t be surprised to see “,” t-shirts before long!

Blessings to all; see you next week.

Pastor David