Pastor Tom's Journal

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Do Likewise “Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise. “ — Luke 10:36–37 We all know the story. It was prompted by a question and occasioned by a teaching in response to a greater question. What we have here is the application: Go and do likewise. One question led to another, then to a story, and then to the lesson Jesus desired to imprint upon every heart: that everyone is our neighbor and that loving our neighbor is about making a practical and active decision to do so and following through regardless of our feelings. A legal expert who sought to trap Jesus in His own words asked Him what was necessary to inherit eternal life. He turned the question back to him and to his knowledge and interpretation of the law. “Love God and love your neighbor” was both the answer he gave and the one that Jesus Himself gave on another occasion when asked wh...

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Photo by  CHUTTERSNAP  on  Unsplash Stuff Breaks. Surely, it does. No jokes about calling me, “Shirley.” That would be a: Faux pas literally meaning “false step.” What do you do when it happens and you do not really know why? If you knew it was you and what it was, you could, possibly, fix it. If you knew it was someone else and what it was, you could ask them to fix it. But some things are not fixable. So, you step back and learn from them. You also seek greater principles through them and apply them. You also write about them as you reflect upon them for the benefit of those who derive benefits from the things you write and they read. I am not sure what happened to “Music of the Heart. and some other pages I created. The whole batch disappeared. Now, I can moan about it or make accusations, or I can adapt and figure something else out. Yes, it was a lot of work building these pages and gaining some following and will be more work, but I am going to find a place to curat...

Luke 10:1-20 “Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves” – Luke 10:3 The costly commission to follow Jesus and to go forth as His ambassadors is so controversial as to appear adversarial. Jesus warns us to expect hostility and opposition. He does not say this to discourage us, but to encourage us. He does not intend to frighten us away, but to have us brace ourselves in the embrace of His grace and power. “Go your ways,” He says this, knowing that each of us has a path that is uniquely and wondrously ours. No two paths are exactly the same though they often intersect and frequently follow parallel courses. We may hesitate to go our ways because it is less risky to continue as we have been, sitting at the feet of Jesus in the cloistered environs of our religious retreats. But we must go. It is His commission. “I send you,” He says this and that gives us courage to go forth, knowing that we have been authorized and mandated we bear his Name and represent...