Walking Through LIfe With God —Mark & Lin Ottenweller
May 11, 2025
Sermon recap:
Learning from at the example of Moses, being humble doesn't mean you don't go through trouble in life. While we build a family and career or face opportunities to lead, fear is not a sign of lack of faith, but of intimidation. We don't want to lead because we don't want to face tough situations, but suffering brings about transformation. Knowing God is the most important thing in life. Our knowledge adn walk with him will help us make good choices. We need to fight for our faith. If you missed the service, you can watch it on our YouTube channel (the lesson starts at 40 mins).
Because Jesus reconciled us to God through the cross, we are called to pursue reconciliation with God, one another, and the world around us.
Jesus reconciles us to the Father and teaches us to extend his grace, helping us forgive one another, heal relationships, and walk together in peace.
The physics of the pendulum Picture an old grandfather clock in a quiet hallway. Its long brass pendulum swings steadily: tick, tock, tick, tock. Now give that pendulum a hard shove to the right. It does not simply glide back to the center and stop. It races right past the middle and sways just as far to the left. Left to its own momentum, a pendulum never rests at either extreme; it finds peace only when it hangs still at the center, held by gravity and its fixed point. The church behaves in much the same way. Push her too far toward one side of a truth and she does not gently settle into balance, she swings. Often for a whole generation toward the opposite error, and then back again, wounding people at both ends of the arc. And here is the crucial thing the clock teaches us: the pendulum comes to rest not by being frozen in place, but by being held. Balance is not the absence of force; it is the fixed point that keeps opposing pulls in tension so that the weight can finally hang still.