First Lutheran Richmond Beach http://flrb.org Just another WordPress site Wed, 09 May 2012 01:51:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Widows, Widowers, & any Seniors Fellowship Lunch http://flrb.org/2012/03/26/widows-widowers-any-seniors-fellowship-lunch/ http://flrb.org/2012/03/26/widows-widowers-any-seniors-fellowship-lunch/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:37:40 +0000 eriks http://flrb.org/?p=1130 Widows, Widowers, & any Seniors Fellowship Lunch

1st Wednesday of the month

Meet at FLRB at 11:00 a.m. and then together go to the Senior Center in Shoreline for lunch.

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Any contributions made toward the purchase of the new piano in the sanctuary will be matched dollar for dollar.

Please consider your tax deductable donation as a contribution toward praising God in the his temple!

Our goal is to raise 20,000 dollars which, thank to our generous match, will become 40,000!

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Wednesday Mornings 9AM-10:30AM

Come hang out with other parents and let the kids play!!!

For more information Contact Terry Baird ffd@flrb.org

 

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8:30 am – Classic Worship
9:45 am – New Community Worship
11:00 am – Sounds of Grace

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]]> http://flrb.org/2011/04/05/news-alert-text/feed/ 0 http://flrb.org/2010/12/20/312/ http://flrb.org/2010/12/20/312/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:00:49 +0000 admin http://flrb.org/?p=312 Ever been in the situation where you know what the Bible says—you know what God’s will is revealed in Scripture, but you can’t bring yourself to do it because it conflicts with your sense of compassion?  Sometimes those are hard things to balance—what you believe to be God’s will, and the compassion you feel—but not only the compassion you feel but the compassion you earnestly believe to be at the center of God’s character.

I struggle with that—knowing what the Bible says but also knowing God’s heart and wanting to exercise compassion toward people even if I know what they’ve done or are continuing to do isn’t right, isn’t God’s will for their lives or for the world.  I know this struggle all too well!

It’s good to know we’re not alone.  Joseph knew the Law of God.  He found out that his fiancée was pregnant and he knew he wasn’t the father.  Deuteronomy 22:21 told him that she should be stoned.  That’s what people did back then.  But Joseph also had compassion.  So he refused to shame her, he refused to hurt her.  He was going to break the engagement but do so quietly.

Now, we all know the angel came to Joseph and convinced him to actually marry Mary and adopt her boy child, Jesus.

Ever wonder what impact that made on Joseph’s family—the fact that he laid aside the requirements of the Law for the sake of compassion?  We get a glimpse of it when, in John 8, a woman is caught in adultery.  They take her to Jesus, throw her to the dirt and ask him what the Law requires for them to do.  It was, of course, a test!  He knew Deuteronomy 22.  But I can only imagine Jesus remembered the time that his dad laid aside the Law to show compassion for a woman caught in a scandal—his mom.  So Jesus got in the dirt with this scandalous woman and began writing in the dirt.  What did he write?  We’re not told—which probably means it must not have been important.  And, then he said, “If any of you are without sin, stone her.” They all left.

Joseph had embraced with compassion a scandal.  And so did Jesus.  Like Father, like Son!

God has revealed His will to us.  But He has also revealed a heart of compassion and, more than that, called us to be people of compassion, love, mercy, and grace.

May we do what we can to live according to God’s will, but may we always do so with great compassion!

Pastor John Bjorge

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