Dear St. Lukers,
Happy almost New Year, and Merry fifth day of Christmas!
We pray you have had a beautiful holiday, and that you experienced the Christ child moving into your neighborhood, home, and heart. Thank you to all the musicians, volunteers, staff, and technical teams who made our Christmas Eve services so beautiful. Now it’s time to prepare for 2023! In fact, we are excited to be spending the first two months of the new year digging into a vision for our individual lives, and for St. Luke’s. Starting this week, we are claiming a year of 23 and ME, and 23 and WE!
A lot of us will be making goals, choosing theme words for the year, trying to find a new focus for what we want to accomplish, or who we want to become in this gift of a new year. What if instead of trying to accomplish all of these things through our own resources, we recognized and claimed our “faith DNA,” and who and what we have been wired by God to become? As individuals we are beloved, called, and created with distinct passions, or “holy discontent,” that God uses to get stuff done in the world! Healing, teaching, building, creating, listening, making, doing; all these actions God has paired with a passion, so when those gifts and passions are put together through the power of the Holy Spirit – lives are changed, things are built and created, vision comes to life, and God’s Kingdom is revealed. What if your goals are not just your New Year’s resolution...but a new you covenant with God?
In worship, our “23 and Me” sermon series kicks off on January 1 with...
