Lord of the Lakes

Lord of the Lakes We invite you to look around our web site and become acquainted with our congregation. Better yet come and visit! Worship with us.

Service Times:

School Year:
8 & 10:30 Sunday Services
9:15 Adult Bible Study, Sunday School (preschool - senior high)
Kool Kids: Wednesdays 5:15 - 7
Emails:
Pastor Craig Bertram- [email protected]
Youth Director, Shelly Carlson- [email protected]

Christ is perfect example of the love we should reflect to others!
06/12/2026

Christ is perfect example of the love we should reflect to others!

Knowledge is knowing facts. Wisdom is knowing how to apply them! Christ has risen! Help us Lord to have wisdom on how...
06/11/2026

Knowledge is knowing facts. Wisdom is knowing how to apply them! Christ has risen! Help us Lord to have wisdom on how to live and apply the good news of forgiveness, life and salvation!

What are you waiting for? Find hope and joy in Christ!
06/10/2026

What are you waiting for? Find hope and joy in Christ!

It’s odd how doing the right thing is persecuted at times in our crazy world. Keep at it today!
06/09/2026

It’s odd how doing the right thing is persecuted at times in our crazy world. Keep at it today!

Only the perfect righteousness of Jesus can make your heart pure!
06/07/2026

Only the perfect righteousness of Jesus can make your heart pure!

Where can you show mercy to others today?
06/06/2026

Where can you show mercy to others today?

Don’t delete a picture - you never know what you might see in it later!!We’ve learned that lesson dozens of times over t...
06/06/2026

Don’t delete a picture - you never know what you might see in it later!!

We’ve learned that lesson dozens of times over the course our trips to Biblical lands. It just happened again the other day…

We were lamenting that after all of the times we’ve been to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, we still haven’t been able to find a way to see the ancient baptistery. This is one of the earlier baptisteries in existence (definitely not the earliest), some date it to the 537 reconstruction of the ancient church by Emperor Justinian. We’ve seen pictures of it online (one included in the photos posted here) but our guide has never been able to take us to it. Scrolling through photos we took from the balcony of the Hagia Sophia in May 2025 we paused at a picture of a window looking out into a small courtyard… could it be… YES!! It is the courtyard where the massive marble immersion baptismal font is now located! Zooming in we can even get a blurry glimpse of the end of the font itself. So while not entirely satisfactory, and we didn’t notice it at the time, I guess we’ve seen it!

Another thing we had read about in the Hagia Sophia is a carving in the stone lintel above the Imperial Gate that reads “The Lord said: I am the door for the sheep. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved; he will come in and go out and find pasture”. Looking at the door, one focuses on its massive size, the cross in the door that has been altered, and the golden shimmering mosaic above the door of Christ and Leo bowing to him. We found that we had captured the lintel carving too!

A final example: we were standing in the nave on the main floor of the Hagia Sophia (which for a few years now has been off limits to tourists) and did some video clips just panning around the vast space. It wasn’t until long after that visit that we noticed the video captured a black and white mosaic high up on a wall with a stylized church and dome and a cross at the center.

So, moral of the story - don’t be so quick to delete your “extra” photos and videos, you never know what surprises they might hold!

While not exactly biblical archeology, the Hagia Sophia is a fascinating place with a long and complex history that begins early in the life of the Christian church. It was built in 360 AD by Emperor Constantine, less than 50 years after the legalization of Christianity. It has gone through fire, earthquake, reconstruction, renovations, conversion to a mosque then a museum then a mosque again. In spite of this, the Christian foundations of this space in the early church are readily evident in hundreds of ways. If you are in Turkiye to follow the footsteps of Paul in Asia Minor, or to go to the archeological sites of the 7 churches of the Revelation, the Hagia Sophia truly is a must see - whatever small part of it we are allowed to see at any given time!

For more Biblical travel photos and videos visit us at:
www.scriptureinstone.org/blog

Thrivent Workshop:11 Red Flags to Spot ScammersWednesday, June 24th6:00pmLord of the LakesRSVP (back of church) Dinner p...
06/05/2026

Thrivent Workshop:
11 Red Flags to Spot Scammers

Wednesday, June 24th
6:00pm
Lord of the Lakes

RSVP (back of church) Dinner provided.

This session is hosted by Wealth Advisor,
Jason L Moehring, CFPr, CAPr, LUTCFr.

What are you filling your hunger and thirst with?
06/05/2026

What are you filling your hunger and thirst with?

6/07/26 Worship for the Second Sunday of PentecostWorship Service is posted. Website Updated. Join us in Worship:lordof...
06/05/2026

6/07/26 Worship for the Second Sunday of Pentecost
Worship Service is posted.
Website Updated.
Join us in Worship:
lordofthelakes.org/worshipcovid19

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