GregCast Diakonia

Let's Look Back a Few Weeks... Easter has given us new life and a reassurance of the hope that comes with our Lord who lives and reigns forever and ever! From his seat at the right hand of the Father, Jesus promised and has sent us the gifts of the Holy Spirit, so we have what it takes to be his disciples, as we are blessed by the God who loves us, and by the Son who guides us, and by the Spirit who empowers us to do the work and the will of the Lord! In our gathering here at this table, day after day and week after week, we are sustained by the very body and blood of Christ that nourishes us! And finally, with the recent Court decision reversing Roe v. Wade, it is with a humble and most gracious heart, after decades of prayer, that we come to this point in our lives! Can you see where we’ve come? Can you see how Easter, Pentecost, the Ascension, and the Feasts of the Holy Trinity and Corpus Christi, and the movement of our society back towards respecting the lives of the unborn ha...

Happy Memorial Day Weekend… First and foremost, let us call to mind the brave men and women who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, on whose shoulders we stand this day. We are free and we are blessed because of them! The number forty appears many times in the Bible: Forty days and nights of rain during the flood Moses lived forty years in Egypt Moses spent forty days on Mount Sinai The Jews journeyed through the desert for forty years to the Promised Land Jonah preached forty days to Nineveh The prophet Ezekiel laid on his right side for forty days to symbolize the sins of Judah Elijah fasted for forty days on Mount Horeb Goliath taunted Israel for forty days Jesus fasted in the desert forty days And now, it has been forty days after the resurrection of Christ. Generally speaking, the number forty has been considered to be used in the Bible as a rounded number. It was used to express a complete period of time rather than expressions like “many” or “some.” It would be similar to referri...