Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.      This bold, seemingly audacious promise of Jesus is given to his disciples and to the infant church in the first century and even now to us who would follow him in this 21st century.  “If in my name…”   If we are troubled in mind or heart, we need only ask Jesus for comfort and he will give it.  If we are overcome by shame or self-loathing, we need only ask Jesus for the assurance that we are beautiful in his sight and he will give it. If we have nightmares of being lost and alone as I often do, we need only to ask Jesus to walk with us and he will do it…  It is in his name, in his nature to save us from falsehoods, from dead ends, from paths that lead nowhere.  Our risen Lord is with us on this fifth Sunday of Easter, this first Sunday after we said “goodbye” to Pastor Ellen.  If only we ask in his name, he is right here, right now, holding our hands, gently but firmly, assuring us that all will be well.  I talked yesterday morning with the son of a go