Shabbat Shalom!

I just had lunch with the Chaplain in a County jail. He tells me that just the other day an inmate sends him a short message, “I want to be baptized”. The Chaplain didn’t know the man so he meets with him just to see why he wanted to be immersed. The man lifts up his shirt and reveals his chest with the word “Bloods” tattooed across it. He proceeds to share that he has a little daughter and he doesn’t want to continue in the lifestyle of crime that he had been involved in since he was 14 years old. He had heard that “this dude named Jesus got the **** kicked out of him because He was willing to come and die for people like me”! Wow, isn’t that what it is all about? People, many of them in prison or maybe dealing with an incurable disease or suffering from unbelievable depression or loss of hope, need to hear our story of having a transforming encounter with Yeshua that brought new life to us, beauty from ashes! In these troubling days with so much uncertainty and pain and chaos it is important for us all to know that we were born “for such a time as this!” When Mordecai, Hadassah’s (or Esther’s) cousin, spoke these words to her she probably felt like many of us, inadequate and unqualified, to do what was being asked, but she obeyed and we know the rest of the story, God delivered the Jewish people from extermination! Your voice and your testimony do matter in these times, share your ‘story’ of redemption, hope and new life with others as we see the world becoming increasingly darker!

This Shabbat March 5th we will be continuing the theme of SHOW ME YOUR GLORY as we explore the part of who God is that we call GRACE. We all have our intellectual understanding and our perfect theologies about this subject, but do we experience Grace in our lives? All I know is that when after many years of being a child of God and even teaching on this subject, I had an encounter with grace in the person of Yeshua, it radically ‘rocked my boat’! Come on up to the Mountain this Shabbat and worship with us, and enjoy fellowship with the family! We will have a potluck style Oneg following the service, so bring a dish to share and join us.

This Sunday March 6th we will be having our monthly Men’s group. We will be meeting at Bill Thorn’s home: 8503 W 8th Ave. Lakewood 80215 at 10am, so bring a dish or some bagels and cream cheese or anything that guys would like to eat! These are special times of sharing, encouraging one another and being a blessing to the brothers. All are welcome and bring a guest if you like. Also, Purim is coming up on Wednesday March 16th and we will have a Purim Event at the Aronsteins. So save the date.

Continue to pray for the situation between Ukraine and Russia, God is moving even in the midst of war and destruction and people are coming to know Messiah!

Blessings and Shabbat Shalom!

Stewart and Millie
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