Blogging Again!

Time to restart! This Lent, I am inviting every member of Willow Creek and Benton Lutheran Churches to read A PARABLE A DAY. As we follow the footsteps of Jesus to the Cross and the empty tomb, we will listen to his faith generating words. The voices of the world are constantly ringing in our ears giving us half truths and empty hopes. Lent has been a time that Christians have turned down the volume of the world, and turned up the volume of Jesus' voice. That is what we'll be doing this Lent as we read a PARABLE A DAY.

In my next post, I'll list the parables that we will read each day. Some are only a verse or two long, but some are a dozen verses, or so. It will not take much time to read a parable a day, but it will take discipline and commitment. I am certain that filling our ears with Jesus' words for the days of Lent will bring a change in us, a change filled with the hope, courage, peace, and joy that only God can give.

When you attend worship on Sunday, you will be given a pamphlet each week with the parable for each day of the week printed out. Place the pamphlet somewhere you will see it and have a moment to read the parable for that day. You can even take home several pamphlets so you can place it at several locations....on a kitchen countertop, on your pillow, on your easy chair, at your job's work station, in your pocket....

Each day, I'll post a blog with a discussion question for the parable for that day. I hope that you will come to the blog and post your comments. I'll follow up on the next day with some comments of my own. My hope is that this journey and blog will be a place for us to gather our insights and impressions of these story-pictures that Jesus told.

As I said, it will not take much time to READ A PARABLE A DAY, but it will take your commitment. Join me this Lent in a commitment to READ A PARABLE A DAY, and let's see what change will take place in our hearts when Lent is over.

Pastor Jerry