Pastor: Dorothy L. Sand
Many people love to play games on their computers. One that has been popular is Microsoft's "Flight Simulator". In most versions of this game, you can choose a prop plane or a Lear jet, and you can also choose which of 180 airports around the country to take off from or to attempt a landing at.
Only after acquiring landing skills after many hours of practice can a player avoid crashing the plane and land safely. It's all very realistic. You can crash into the Empire State Building in New York City, the Sears Tower in Chicago, or the Space Needle in Seattle. Your plane can break apart in midair, breaking the sound barrier over Dallas. You can nose-dive into Lake Michigan going five hundred miles an hour.
The greatest thing about "Flight Simulator," though, is that the game always puts you back together and places you back on the runway ready to take off again.
That's the way it is with God. He's absolutely faithful to forgive us and to restore us when we mess up and get us back into action, hopefully a little wiser after our failures and bad decisions. "God is faithful and reliable. If we admit out failures, God forgives them and cleanses us from everything we've done." (The First Letter of John chapter 1 verse 9 - from the Bible).
At St.John Lutheran Church we believe in a God of second chances (and third chances, fourth chances, etc.). We invite you to come and get to know this God of forgiveness every Saturday at 5pm and Sunday at 10:30 am. Won't you join us this week?
