Ordinary Sinners
Adam & Eve, Noah, David, and so many more -- These people are constantly talked about in the Scriptures, not because they are perfect or holy but because God works “thru” ordinary sinners.
Adam & Eve, Noah, David, and so many more -- These people are constantly talked about in the Scriptures, not because they are perfect or holy but because God works “thru” ordinary sinners.
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![[Sunday] Paul- Ordinary Sinners](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1627670324283-J584NBY0VTTHKBOCEGFD/Ordinaryweekly9a.jpg)
![[Sunday] Nehemiah - Ordinary Sinners](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1627096481295-NT5LT0UXILA9DRIU7ZZ5/Ordinaryweekly8a.jpg)
![[Sunday] David - Ordinary Sinners](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1626448858889-AZB4OREIGGXOKPN2EAVX/Ordinaryweekly7a.jpg)
![[Sunday] Saul - Ordinary Sinners](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1625774260673-ECW0JTK64ICR6XNGWNG0/Ordinaryweekly6a.jpg)
![[Sunday] Samson - Ordinary Sinners](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1625249805196-1XDATZRGWC2AR449CJPB/Ordinaryweekly5a.jpg)
![[Sunday] Rahab- Ordinary Sinners](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1624641588151-6KEQK5TERUATDTY7AZAH/Ordinaryweekly4a.jpg)
![[Sunday] Moses - Ordinary Sinners](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1624031882752-N9T4M3YJB20YY4T4M6AJ/Ordinaryweekly3a.jpg)
![[Sunday] Noah - Ordinary Sinners](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1622827848456-PUU3YSVAC90JV4SXQ2OB/Ordinaryweekly2a.jpg)
![[Sunday] Adam & Eve - Ordinary Sinners](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1622827122643-WDD88FJ47DPHIUCXSQ1E/Ordinaryweekly1a.jpg)
![[Sunday] Itching Ears - Entrusted](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1622217670457-L7M4NF8J0TMKHSPAM1Y3/Entrusted+Weekly3a.jpg)
[Sunday] Itching Ears - Entrusted
With so many folks all around listening and believing so many toxic ideas and untruths, it can seem like the world is just heading to the bad place. But, what if it is me that stretches my itching ears?
Questions for the Week
Who are your itching ears listening to that could lead you away from following Jesus?
Read 2 Timothy 4:1-8. What attributes does Paul encourage Timothy to have as he “preaches the word?” What does it look like for you to share your faith with “patience and teaching?”
How does knowing that “the crown of righteousness” in Jesus is laid up for you help you have perseverance in the faith?
Action Item: When you are tempted to get frustrated with someone who believes differently than you, stop and listen. Be patient with them. Remember that Jesus has already won.
Service [above] Sermon releases at 10pm [under]
What Had happened at Grace this week.
![[Sunday] A Song of Christmas Light - Pointing to Greatness Stave 4](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1766107074577-MKU6U8LW1N5S1EATE1RW/Christmas+light+4a.jpg)
![Christmas Dinner at Mission BBQ [photos]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1766111458710-ULPCKS16DAZCMUN7LI93/PXL_20251218_000243197.jpg)
![[Sunday] A Song of Christmas Light - Know Me Better Man Stave 3](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1765482111687-AQYCM4FZQV9BO7JIPL02/Christmas+light+3a.jpg)
Remembering Chuck Kamrath
Service at Grace. Saturday May 29th at 11am
Service
Memorial Service
Saturday May 29th 11am
Grace Lutheran PSL
555 SW Cashmere Blvd. Port St Lucie, FL 32986
Live Stream: https://youtu.be/d-dvNGHPrhE
REAL MEN DROP L-BOMBS
Saying “I Love You” and Other Emotional Blessings of Christianity
Read Full Article at https://mbird.com/2021/05/real-men-drop-l-bombs/
You’ve heard the confession countless times before. “My father never said ‘I love you’ to me growing up.” I heard it from a friend yesterday, while we were running together. He explained, “It wasn’t that he didn’t love me or was cold, just that, like most men of his generation, he expressed his love non-verbally, through provision and presence and maybe the occasional hug.”
Read Full Article at https://mbird.com/2021/05/real-men-drop-l-bombs/
Remembering Claude Hessee
Service at Grace. Thursday May 20th at 11am
Service and Visitations
Visitation
Wednesday May 26 5-7pm
Haisley Funeral Home Ft. Peirce
3015 Okeechobee Rd, Fort Pierce, FL 34947
Memorail Service
Thursday May 27th 11am
Grace Lutheran PSL
555 SW Cashmere Blvd. Port St Lucie, FL 32986
Live Stream: https://youtu.be/pc1r2qDqIjc
Graveside
Following Memorial Service
White City Cemetary
More Information Coming
![[Sunday] Physically Empty - Entrusted](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1621627248732-UEAU9R45YTOXJ30ZCOZC/Entrusted+Weekly2a.jpg)
[Sunday] Physically Empty - Entrusted
Those hurtful empty words only bring hurt and harm. They are only shouted to puff up and look important. But we see the words of the Creator bring about physical life and grace to the whole creation.
Questions for the Week
Share a time when someone’s empty words hurt you.
Read 2 Timothy 3:1-17. What does Paul say about those people who use hurtful words? How is the folly of those hurtful people on full display?
How does the voice of Jesus differ from those empty words?
Action Item: Find a way to be physically present with someone and share some hope with them.
Service [above] Sermon releases at 10pm [under]
What Had happened at Grace this week.
ORDINARY FORGIVENESS AND THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
What if the Resurrection is Actually Just the Beginning?
Read the whole article here: https://mbird.com/2021/05/ordinary-forgiveness-and-the-christian-life/
Some have described the Easter season as a journey. And indeed, one can’t help but notice a shift in the trajectory of the Sunday readings. From Easter Sunday to just before Pentecost, the readings slowly move out away from the initial joy of the empty tomb, and especially as we move closer to and beyond the Ascension, the readings return to the Upper Room Discourses in John’s Gospel, the place where we began our journey through the Lord’s Passion and Resurrection on Maundy Thursday.
We’ve turned from the initial Easter Joy to a consideration of what it’s like for us as we live within what Paul Zahl calls the presence of the absence of the Risen Lord. And this Gospel arc will culminate next week with Pentecost Sunday, the birthday of the Church, the beginning of our life as Christians.
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Grand Opening of Alzheimer's Day Care - Photos
We added more pictures
More photos may come in the future.
![[Sunday] Corners Cut - Entrusted](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1621089309588-879AN4S4APXC29NXOA59/Entrusted+Weekly1a.jpg)
[Sunday] Corners Cut - Entrusted
Backed up against the wall seeming no other way out, it's tempting to cut corners, to make the task easier, to get to the goal faster. But Paul is encouraging us to remember the faith we have been entrusted with, to follow it though and not cut corners.
Questions for the Week
What is something that has been “entrusted” to you? How do you treat that thing that is “entrusted” to you?
Read 2 Timothy 1:1-13. Paul uses examples of soldiers, athletes and farmers to show us not to cut corners. In what ways have you tried to cut corners in your life and faith? What has been the result of cutting those corners?
How does the promise that “the word of God is not bound” enable you to live out your faith?
Action Item: When you are stressed this week, don’t try to cut corners and fix it. Pause and notice how Jesus is working.
Service [above] Sermon releases at 10pm [under]
What Had happened at Grace this week.
Updated Covid Restrictions May 17th 2021
Sunday May 16th continues our current covid safeguards.
Grace Building Best Practices for Covid
Masks not required. (keep in mind the unvaccinated)
Keep the Distance. (no overcrowding rooms)
Wash hands upon arrival.
CDC and the state of Florida have been updating guidance pertaining to COVID-19.
We have also been paying attention to how Disney and Universal Orlando have responded and to what they’re telling their guests because they are some of Florida’s leaders in handling customers and employees during this last year’s situation.
Both what the government and big companies are suggesting are important places we use as a guide here at Grace Lutheran PSL in these times.
Some of the leadership at Grace had an impromptu meeting on Friday about our next steps leading out of COVID-19, and we developed a plan.
We will let you know what that plan is on Sunday May 16th during the worship services.
As for Sunday May 16th, our current plans will stay in place.
Wear a mask (no peeking noses)
Wash hands
Physical distance
Max 50 in Sanctuary and 10 in overflow
Thanks so much
Cris Escher
Pastor: Grace Lutheran PSL
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Entrusted - Paul's Final Letter to Timothy
This is the message I’ve been set apart to proclaim as preacher, emissary, and teacher. It’s also the cause of all this trouble I’m in. But I have no regrets. I couldn’t be more sure of my ground, the One I’ve trusted in can take care of what He’s trusted me to do right to the end. Now, go with the faith; you have been entrusted into all the world.
This is the message I’ve been set apart to proclaim as preacher, emissary, and teacher. It’s also the cause of all this trouble I’m in. But I have no regrets. I couldn’t be more sure of my ground, the One I’ve trusted in can take care of what He’s trusted me to do right to the end. Now, go with the faith; you have been entrusted into all the world.
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Grand Opening of Alzheimer's Day Care. May 14th
Friday May 14th
We are Excited to celebrate the opening of the Alzhimer’s Community care day facility at Grace Lutheran Church
May 14th beginning at 11:30am
AN ODE TO CURIOSITY
This Place of Curiosity — the Very Opposite of Judgement — is Often Where I Experience God.
Read the whole article here https://mbird.com/2021/05/an-ode-to-curiosity/
One of the best scenes in the opening season of the surprise-hit show Ted Lasso is during a darts match in a sports bar. As the game is heating up and a crowd is clustering around him and his opponent, Lasso tells a story in parabolic fashion. While driving his son to school one day, he sees a quote painted on a wall: “Be curious, not judgmental.” The quote reminds him of the people who used to belittle him when he was young. “Not a single one of them was curious,” he recalls. “They thought they had it figured out. They judged.” Little did they know that Lasso did have something to offer (and little does his opponent know that Lasso is a master at darts). The moral here is that curiosity is the opposite of judgment. Where judgment decides, curiosity searches; where judgment closes a door, curiosity leaves it open.
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[Sunday] Hope Shapes Us - Rise
If your house was about to be destroyed, would you clean it? Would you fix the leaky faucet? Would you take care of it. Perhaps our care of creation follows when our hope is in its destruction. But the resurrection gives a new hope, not in destruction, but in a restorative God who's making all things new again.
Questions for the Week
Have you ever seen something that was completely restored? How did you feel about that thing that was restored?
Read Revelation 21:1-8 What does Jesus promise to do? How is making all things new different than making a new thing?
How does having Hope that all things will be restored change how you live today?
Action Item: Take some time this week and think about a troubled place or problem in our world today. Spend some time praying for that place or issue, trusting that God will make all things new.
Service [above] Sermon releases at 10pm [under]
What Had happened at Grace this week.
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A Fresh Breath of Hope
Consider the Lillies of the Field
Read the Whole article Here. https://mbird.com/2021/05/a-fresh-breath-of-hope/
Last year, there was a stunning spring, and I definitely noticed it. The blossoming and blooming of Capitol Hill is always beautiful, but spending my days working from home made for more walks, more gazing out the window, more noticing.
My office told us we’d begin teleworking. I nodded. “Two weeks at most,” I thought. Two weeks would be nice to be home. A little breather from my normal chaotic job. But it wasn’t two weeks, and from my house I watched spring unfold, but not with the normal ease and pleasure.
It was a mercy that while everything else shuttered up, the blossoms still opened themselves to bring our world color and life. As the two weeks wore on, I began to realize this wouldn’t go away. The normal hustle and bustle of the city slowed to a sudden, abrupt stop. The same words were on everyone’s lips: “the pandemic,” “restrictions,” “case numbers.” But amidst the frenzy, a trip to the grocery store delivered the same mercy to me the spring blossoms offered to our scared and shaky world.
Read the Whole article Here. https://mbird.com/2021/05/a-fresh-breath-of-hope/
We see the story of Peter and experience the smell of charcoal on a beach while Jesus is cooking fish. We see that Jesus restores us where we have failed, and from there, He sends us out to where He is already working.