I would like to invite you to a service at Gethsemane Lutheran Church with Ada on Sunday Nov 23, 2025 to share the gospel. Just click anywhere in this box.
Matthew 10:16 "I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
This is the ministry challenge of Jesus to the disciples. Are we disciples? Then the wolves are certainly going to be out there or in there or coming in there for us. And like the dear Red Riding Hood, we may miss the initial cues as to the identity of such. This is not about living in fear, but recognizing that we will be challenged, hurt and yet triumphant in the faithful practice of actively loving, inviting, caring and healing spiritually and physically the people of our lives. In my Texas backyard, the doves come in and eat safely at my feeders, but there are cats in the area and at some time in the year the shooting of doves is a major event. We need to live with the awareness of dangers like that of the wily snake while serving with the gentleness of the dove. Who said it would be simple? Not our Lord. Nor His Father.
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Let the Christ in you shine