It was good to have all our regulars back last Sunday, and some beloved friends as well. Now let’s keep bringing them in! The stonework around the sidewalks was completed on Friday, and I’m told it looks very nice. I did not foresee that pulling out the shrubbery would lead to so much more work, but it does seem to have accomplished its purpose as our facility is no longer attracting the high levels of activity of questionable nature while we are away. Now we must choose what to plant next spring, and I trust that our planting will be of both earthly and heavenly nature.

For those constrained to join us from afar, I do apologize for the unpredictable sound quality from week to week. We really need better equipment and maybe software to do more professional feeds, and hands to run it. We keep trusting in the Lord and doing what we can with what we have.

That brings us to the message for this Sunday. The Gospel of Luke gives us two accounts of angelic visitations in the first chapter.  The first is to Zacharias, a priest serving in the temple.  The second is to Mary, a young lady engaged to be married who learns she’s about to be pregnant!  Both receive news of a miracle, but their responses differ in one very important detail.  They both ask questions, but one asks from doubt, the other from faith.
Few if any of us can expect a visit from an angel, but we are confronted with the same choice that Zacharias and Mary had.  Will we choose to believe God even when what He says doesn’t seem possible, or will we question him in doubt.  Mary’s question was one of faith and of curiosity.  In other words, “How are You going to do that?”  Zacharias’ question was one of skepticism, “prove to me that You can do that.”  We all have questions, and that’s OK.  Let them be questions from faith and not from doubt.

I have a question for you. Will you be there?

Love y’all!