First Christian Church

Last week, I gazed out of my office window, giving thanks to God throughout the day for the beauty of sunlight streaming through golden aspen leaves.  Just a week later – the trees are bare and Casper Mountain has turned white.

How quickly weather changes!

We were blessed with a truly unusually nice autumn this year.  Thanks to the nice temperatures and sunny days (and lack of any snow in October!) the Pumpkin Patch had a record year.

It seems the “weather” can change quickly in a congregation too….  It only takes one person to stir up conflict if others are willing to play the negativity game.

Will God’s SONlight shine through you today?

I am honored to be serving a congregation where – even when the “temperature” isn’t always sunny – people genuinely listen to one another’s concerns and invest the energy needed to work through a diversity of opinions to try to discern God’s will.

CHANGE is hard.  We are often tempted to think that, in a constantly changing world, church is the one place where things will remain constant.  Yet we need to remember that it is GOD who is constant!  In a changing world, the church will indeed change.  Like a ship altering its course to continue following the polar star on a stormy sea, the church must adjust the ways we do ministry in order to continue truly following God.

Let’s pray today for churches that are changing – whether gracefully or with struggle, that they (we) may stay true to God’s leading.