Messges in Revelations

  Dear LFP friends and family,

I have to admit, it’s been a challenging start to 2026. The news of Renee Nicole Good’s death in Minneapolis yesterday due to a shooting from an ICE agent is heartbreaking and a huge blow on top of a chaotic week.

I invite you in this moment to pray, to seek the Lord's solace. To hold in tension the need to grieve and the need to ask serious questions and to hold our leaders accountable.

Reading Revelation this January has given me fresh insight into what it means for us to live faithfully in these turbulent times. I look forward to exploring more of this with you on Sundays in our new series 7 Words to Steady On.

This quote from the late biblical scholar,  Walter Brueggeman feels right:

“Real criticism begins in the capacity to grieve because that is the most visceral announcement that things are not right,…Only in the empire are we pressed and urged and invited to pretend that things are all right. . . . And as long as the empire can keep the pretense alive that things are all right, there will be no real grieving and no serious criticism." (Walter Brueggeman, The Prophetic Imagination)

It’s important for us at times in this season to say out loud, “things are not as they should be.” We are called to steady ourselves with the good news of Jesus Christ, and to commit ourselves to living with Christ at the center, following his way of truth, love, grace and peace.

May we do it together.

One quick plug: let’s gather this Saturday morning at 9am for a Men’s Breakfast — guys of all ages encouraged! Register right now so the team can plan and shop for food!

Peace,

Pastor Jeff