Lakeside Community Presbyterian Church

^“41 Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem

for the Festival of the Passover.

⁴² When He was twelve years old,

they went up to the festival, according to the custom.”

(Luke 2:41 & 42)

Do you have a memorable family vacation? Maybe it was annual trip to a favorite vacation spot. Maybe it was a multi-state road trip or a once-in-a-lifetime overseas trip. Or maybe it was seeing your cousins every year over a holiday. I suspect that your memorable vacation wasn’t anything like Jesus’ vacation to the Festival of the Passover when He was twelve.

This week at our Sunday worship service we look at Jesus’ annual family trip to Jerusalem in Luke chapter 2 and the variety of things that we learn about Jesus and His relationship to His family, to God and what that means for us.

Hope that you can join us in person or online.

Have a great rest of the week!

“In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.

Your sons and daughters will prophesy,

your young men will see visions,

your old men will dream dreams.

Even on my servants, both men and women,

I will pour out my Spirit in those days,

and they will prophesy.”

Acts 2:17 & 18

(from the Apostle Peter’s sermon on the Day of Pentecost, a quote from the prophet Joel)

Last week I had a phone conversation with a member at Solana Beach Presbyterian Church. She is a 63-year-old single lady who has a dream of serving others.

It is a big dream. She wants to serve the most vulnerable in Armenia, in a way that is out of her comfort zone, but she has a vision and a passion that God placed upon her heart and that vision has her striving to serve God in ways that she never thought possible.

It is in her “third-third of life” that she is acting on a dream from God and it is in your third-third of life that I want to encourage you in your calling as a disciple of Jesus. Discipleship doesn’t end at a certain age. It is a life-long calling to move in the slow direction to be like Jesus and it includes our dreams and vision.

Here is an article for you to read from the Fuller Seminary’s De Pree Center (https://depree.org/de-pree-journal/not-too-late-to-act-on-your-dream/). It is a good reminder that the third-third of our life is one where we can make a difference for God’s kingdom. He can give us dreams and those dreams can impact our world for Jesus.

Have a great rest of the 4^th of July weekend.

I need to say a big thank you to many of you who helped cover last Sunday’s service due to my illness. If you didn’t hear, I returned home from my trip and came down with COVID. I am grateful to John Sunkel for “pinch-hitting” for me and doing the preaching on Sunday. I am feeling much better and will be back on Sunday.

We start a new sermon series this week entitled, “Angles of Love” as we look at a church, it’s architecture and how a building can speak to us about the love of God. We are also going to be using the stained-glass windows in the church as a springboard for telling the story of God’s love.

So, I hope to see you this Sunday.