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Resurrection Lutheran Church, 675 W Vandament Avenue, Yukon, OK (2026)

06/02/2026

June 2, 2026 – “A God who is with us”

Genesis 46:3-4 – [God appeared to Jacob/Israel and said] “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph’s own hand will close your eyes.”

When we feel like we need to manipulate our lives for our own purposes (Jacob), we are limited to our resources and the results we can achieve on our own. When we have learned to trust God and press into him and his purposes, he gives us his resources and accomplishes things in and through us that are much bigger than us.

As Jacob/Israel prepares to go with his family down to Egypt, God appears to him in a vision and tells him not to be afraid to go down to Egypt because he will make a great nation of him there. How will it be accomplished? Not by Jacob’s scheming, but by the God of Israel going with them and doing for them what they can’t do by themselves.

How do I live my life? Am I a Jacob who tries to accomplish my agenda, my way, using my resources? Or, am I an Israel who trusts God will travel with me, be with me, and accomplish his purposes for me even as I go places I hadn’t planned to go?

Father, I have tried using my resources to accomplish my agenda and seen how underwhelming my results tend to be. I want to spend the rest of my life trusting that you are going with me even as I go places I hadn’t planned to go, and that when you are with me, you will accomplish things in and through me which are much bigger than what I could ever accomplish on my own. AMEN

06/01/2026

Thought for June 1, 2026 – “Saved, but calling the wrong place home”

Genesis 45:5,10-11 – [Joseph said to his brothers] “And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you…
You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have. I will provide for you there, because five years of famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.”

The place of rescue is not meant to be a permanent dwelling place. It is simply meant to be a temporary stop before going back to the place of calling.

Genesis 45 begins with Joseph revealing to his brothers who he is. He begins his revelation by telling them he is not there because of their sin but because of God’s plans to save them and many others from famine. He quickly moves to inviting them to go get their families and have them move to the best of the land of Egypt in Goshen for the remaining five years of famine.

This is an amazing story of how God saves the ones he has called from sure death so his promises to them and their descendants can be fulfilled. The problem is that they will not just stay in the place of rescue for five more years and then move back to their place of calling. They will make a permanent home in the place that ought to have been temporary. Their descendants will not go back to the place of calling and promise for over 400 years, many of those years serving as slaves.

God has stepped in and provided for me several times in my life when I didn’t know what to do next. Those times of rescue have been sweet, but they were never meant to permanently distract me from his greater calling on my life.

There have been challenges in my life recently, and I am seeing how God continues to provide rescue at times I haven’t known how things would work out. It would be easy to make the place of rescue my permanent home, but I am not meant to remain in the land of rescue. I am meant to dwell in the land of my calling and God’s purposes for my life.

Father, I am grateful for the many times you have rescued me during times of challenge. Help me to not seek to remain in the places of rescue, but instead stay there as long as needed and then move back to my place of calling. I appreciate my times in Goshen, but I want to live my life in Canaan. AMEN

05/31/2026

Thought for May 31, 2026 – “A son willing to lay down his life for another son”

Genesis 44:33-34 - “Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers. 34 How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.”

One way to honor a father is to lay down your life for his son or daughter.

In Genesis 44, the brothers take their bags of grain and head toward home, not knowing Joseph has planted his cup in Benjamin’s bag. When Joseph sends his steward to catch up with them, the steward discovers Joseph’s cup in Benjamin’s bag and plans to take Benjamin into custody while sending the others home. Judah knows this will break his father’s heart and offers to take his brother’s place in prison to allow Benjamin to go home.
Judah is more concerned with honoring his father than he is with his own freedom and life. It will be about 1700 years later that a descendant of Judah named Jesus will voluntarily trade his life on the cross to honor his Father who desires that all his sons and daughters be saved (1 Timothy 2:4).

According to Hebrews 12:2, as Jesus went to the cross he didn’t see what he was giving up but rather what he was gaining to honor his Father. What he was gaining by laying down his life was the joy of his Father bringing his sons and daughters who have been in bo***ge to sin home.

When Jesus saw the prospect of me suffering the consequences of my sin, he glorified his Father by laying down his life and taking those consequences upon himself. Me being set free and restored to my Father was the joy Jesus saw from the cross.

Father, thank you that Jesus, the descendent of Judah, was willing to take my sin upon himself so I could have his righteousness and his access to you. Thank you that he focused not on what he was losing for his sake but rather on all of your sons and daughters who were in bo***ge to sin who he was setting free to come home to you. AMEN

05/31/2026

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05/30/2026

Thought for May 30, 2026 – “Healing Begins with Honesty”

Genesis 43:21 - But at the place where we stopped for the night we opened our sacks and each of us found his silver—the exact weight—in the mouth of his sack. So we have brought it back with us.
The beginning of healing is honesty. Toward ourselves and toward others.

In Genesis 43, the first grain Joseph’s brothers had brought from Egypt is gone, and it's time to go back. Jacob agrees to send Benjamin with them because he knows there is no other option for receiving food. When they arrive, the first thing they do is confess that nobody took their money for the first food they received so they want to make that right. It is then that the steward says their grain had been paid for. The chapter ends with Joseph preparing a meal for all 11 brothers and will set the stage for his revealing of his identity to them in the next chapter.

The journeys to Egypt for food have humbled the brothers, as Joseph overhears them talking about how they had sinned against him and deserve their punishment, and as they admit their money hadn’t been taken the first time. Their humility and honesty are important for the healing of themselves and their relationship with their brother.

1 John 1:8-9 says, “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”

The journey toward healing of ourselves and our relationships with God and each other begins not with our self-justification but with our honesty. As long as we say we have no sin, little healing can be expected toward God or the people in our lives. If we are honest, the healing is able to begin.

Father, thank you for showing me that the way to healing in my relationship with you and others is not by how creative I can be to make myself look good, but by how honest I am about the ugly places in my life. You work powerfully in honesty, but get little access to bring me healing in dishonesty. AMEN

05/29/2026

Thought for May 29, 2026 – “The one you most dislike may be the one you most need”

Genesis 42:1-2 - When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you just keep looking at each other?” He continued, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”

The people who bother us the most may be the very people we will most need when challenges arise that we are not able to solve on our own.

The famine Joseph predicted has begun, and Genesis 42 begins with Jacob hearing there is grain in Egypt and sending his sons to buy some. Little do Joseph’s brothers know that the one they worked so hard to get rid of will be the very one who will save their lives. Joseph’s gift with dreams will move from an annoyance to a lifesaving blessing.

We are given different gifts not to annoy each other and cause us to separate into groups of people just like us. We are given different gifts because we will regularly encounter challenges in life where we will need people who have gifts we don’t have.

The ones who drive us crazy because they are different are likely to be our greatest gifts in times of challenge.
*The free-spirit needs the serious, organized person. And vice versa.
*The high energy person needs the person of rest. And vice versa.
*The holiness church needs the social justice church. And vice versa.
*The Word-centered church needs the Spirit-empowered church. And vice versa.

Who do I need to stay connected to (even when they annoy me) because I will need what they have? Who do I hope will stay connected to me (even when I annoy them) because they will need what I have.

Father, when I am tempted to write people off because they are different than me, help me intentionally stay connected because they may be the very ones I will need when my gifts are not enough for the challenges I face, and my gifts may be the very ones they need when their gifts are not enough. AMEN

05/28/2026

Thought for May 28, 2026 – “The church has resources the world needs”

Genesis 41:15-16 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.” “I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”

In a culture which thinks the way to a better world is to decrease the influence of the church and increase dependence on human knowledge and progress, it is time for the church to show the world we have resources they need to avoid major problems they are not prepared for.

In Genesis 41 it has been two whole years since Joseph had asked Pharaoh’s cupbearer to tell Pharaoh about him. It is only when Pharoah has two dreams no one can interpret that he remembers Joseph and tells Pharaoh about him. When Pharaoh turns to Joseph to interpret his dreams, he is inviting resources and solutions which the best the world has to offer is unable to provide.

The world has a big problem with doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results. What if the best of human wisdom and knowledge is not going to solve many of the world’s problems? What if it is people who are able to hear and speak what God has to say about a situation who will lead to societal change that would otherwise never happen?

What if it is time to stop doing the same things in ministry just to wonder why my results aren’t getting any better? What if it’s time to do what God is showing me even though I have no reason to believe it will work other than my trust in God and that the world needs the church to do things differently?

Father, what does the world need that you have equipped me to provide? What if the world will never experience that thing you have uniquely created me to do if I don’t take the risk of doing it? Help me to stop doing the same things over again expecting different results and instead do the new thing you have created and called me to do. AMEN

05/27/2026

Thought for May 27, 2026 – “Coincidence or Divine Appointment?”
Genesis 40:6-8 - When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw [Pharaoh’s baker and cupbearer] were dejected. So, he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?” “We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

Should we be surprised when God gives a dream to someone right before he puts someone in their path who can help them understand their dream. Much of what we dismiss as lucky coincidence is God purposely creating divine appointments which will facilitate his will being done in the world.

In Genesis 40, Joseph is in prison, but he is in a position of leadership and responsibility due to the way God is at work in him to make things better for everyone in the prison. When Pharaoh’s baker and cupbearer are sent to prison, Joseph is put in charge of them. As soon as they are around Joseph, God gives both of them dreams the same night. When Joseph sees they are both perplexed the next morning, he asks what has happened, and they share with him their dreams. The news is good for one and not good for the other, but this encounter will create a pathway for Joseph to get the access to the top leadership of Egypt which he will need to save many from an upcoming famine.

What would have happened if Joseph hadn’t noticed their state of perplexity of the two men and asked what had caused it? The dreamers and the one who could interpret their dreams are in the same room, but without Joseph’s intentionality to start a conversation, nothing would have changed.

Before I started paying attention to people and starting conversations, it seemed I rarely had what I would call “Divine Appointments. Now as I have started being more intentional about seeing people and starting conversations, I find Divine Appointments happening all the time.

What if the difference is not how many Divine Appointments God has prepared to happen, but how available God’s people are to see people and start the conversations for them to happen?

Father, open my eyes and heart to be enter into the Divine Appointments you have for me today. May I start the conversations you want me to start, and may I be honest to share what is on my heart when others start conversations with me. AMEN

05/26/2026

Thought for May 26 – “Causing those around us to be blessed”

Genesis 39:2,21 - The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master…the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.

The measure of my life is not how far I elevate myself above those around me, but how much I raise the water level for those around me.

Genesis 39 begins with Joseph serving his new master Potiphar in Egypt. As long as Joseph is serving him, Potiphar is blessed and prosperous because God is with him. That ends when Potiphar’s wife falsely accuses Joseph of assaulting her, and Joseph is thrown in prison. Once again, Joseph is not where he wants or deserves to be, but God is with him even in prison as he becomes a blessing to the prison warden and the whole prison community.

We may not always find ourselves in places we planned to be, wanted to be or even deserved to be, but our calling is the same no matter where we are. It is to host the presence of God so that we become a blessing to those around us.

Am I in my dream job, with everything going as planned? My role in that situation is to host the presence of God and be a blessing to others so that everyone around me is better off because of me.

Am I struggling with health issues, addictions, divorce or job loss? My role in that situation is the same. I am to host the presence of God where I am so that everyone around me is better off because I am in their life (and to trust there will be others who are hosting God’s presence in their lives who will lift me).

Father, I might not always be where I planned or wanted to be, but you have promised to be with me wherever I go. Because you are with me, I trust that I will be fine wherever I am, and I expect the people around me will be better off because I am a contact point for them to encounter your presence and blessing in their lives. AMEN

05/25/2026

Thought for May 25, 2026 – “Out of a sense of lack, we are slow to give and quick to take”

Genesis 38:9,15-16 - But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.
When Judah saw [Tamar] he thought she was a pr******te, for she had covered her face. Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.”

When we live our lives out of emptiness and a sense of scarcity, we are likely to be more hesitant to give to one who needs what we have, and quicker to take what someone else has to fill our emptiness.

The culture of Genesis 38 is different than ours, so some of what is happening seems odd to us. When Judah’s oldest son Er fails to have a child with his wife Tamar before he died, the culture of the day said his younger brother Onan was to father a child for her to carry on his brother’s name. Yet, Onan made sure to not impregnate Tamar because he didn’t want to provide a child for his brother. Tradition of the time would have meant Judah offer his youngest son Shelah to father a child for his brother, but Judah fails to deliver on his promise to provide Shelah to Tamar.

Later in the chapter, Judah’s wife Shua dies, and after a time of grief, Judah propositions a pr******te to help fill his emptiness. Little does he know it is his daughter-in-law Tamar who is dressed as a pr******te. She will become pregnant and carry on the family line through her father-in-law. Her sons will be part of the genealogy of Jesus.

Onan didn’t want to share his child with his brother so he made sure there was no child. Judah was grieving and empty so he went to a pr******te who turned out to be his daughter-in-law getting back at him for not providing her his youngest son to give her a child.

How often do we fail to give the best of what we have to someone because we know the credit will go to someone else for our work?
How often do we medicate our emptiness by taking from others and relating to them based on what they can do for us rather than who they are?

Father, may I give the best of who I am to meet the needs of others, even if all the credit will go to someone else. May I not start seeing others as tools to be used to fill my emptiness but always honor them for who they are as your sons and daughters. AMEN

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