Lucerne Community Church

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Getting ready for Trunk or Treat. Come join us 4:30 to 6:00. Hope to see you here.

What are you joyful for today? Life can sometimes feel cold, hard, and bitter. Where do you see God? If we don't look for the things of God to rejoice in, we will probably not see them.

We are excited to announce that this Sunday will be our ordination ceremony of our new elected Pastor, Mark Anderson . To learn more about Pastor Mark, visit our website.

On Sunday, May 2nd, 2021, the members of Lucerne Community Church, by unanimous agreement, approved the calling of Mark Anderson as our Pastor. Please keep him and his family in your prayers.

Hi everyone! Just checking in. I love Tennessee. Driving to visit my sister, I saw a revival tent being set up. I didn't know they still did this. God is definately more prominent here, and you can feel it. It is absolutely stunning. The leaves are beginning to change. One local church put, "God is painting the mountains!" on their sign board. I miss you all. Love and God's blessings to my Lucerne Church family.

The old saying is that it is hard to remember your mission was to drain the swamp when you are up to your waist in alligators. In 2020 alligators might be considered a pandemic, fires, an election year, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, looting, and intrusions on our right to freely worship. The early disciples of Jesus were tested by the priests, the Romans, the Jews and their own self doubts. Jesus reminded the disciples that their faith came from within, by the H...oly Spirit. In Luke chapter 17 verses 1 through 10 Jesus instructed His disciples that temptation to sin would come but woe to him who would cause one of the humble ones to stumble (lose their faith). Our actions, therefore, can cause others to fall; but our actions can also help build someone’s faith. Really we are not in need of bad news, there is enough of that all around us. We need words of encouragement. A faithful follower of Christ will be an encourager. A faithful follower is a forgiving follower. When a fellow follower sins we must rebuke him/her and if he/she repents, we must forgive them. Jesus forgives us, we must forgive others. Therein our faith is strengthened. Paul wrote, Faith comes by hearing and nearing the words of Christ (Romans 10:17). Do you want your faith to increase keep listening, keep doing, keep practicing your faith and you will grow bolder and more steadfast in your love of the Lord and in your belief. See more

God has made promises throughout history which were recorded in the Bible. With the benefit of hindsight we are able to see God’s promises and how He brought them to fruition. Historically, God’s word has been misconstrued, misused, and misinterpreted. There is no doubt that God, through the prophets, announced the coming of the Messiah in places like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Psalm, and most of the Minor Prophets. So the fact that Jesus came was not a surprise for the devo...ut. The surprise is that they had formulated a picture what the Savior would be like, how He would act, and what He would do. Jesus became a stumbling block to many because He was not the conquering military leader they were expecting. Jesus made it clear to Pilate that His kingdom was not of this world. Jesus came to seek and save the lost, To be tried for treason and blasphemy was not the picture most had of the Christ. To be arrested and crucified on a cross was not the image they had of their King. Jesus’ association with tax gatherers, prostitutes, Samaritans, lepers, and non-Jews was an abomination to those who expected something better. Although Jesus had told His disciples of His pending death and ultimate resurrection from the dead, the scriptures reveal a group of followers who were amazed and somewhat unprepared for Jesus appearance to them following His power over the grave. Too often our idea of who Jesus is and what He came to do and accomplish gets tangled up in our expectations of Him. We will examine the unexpected life and ministry of Jesus in this sermon on The Unexpected Jesus. Scriptures: Joshua 6; Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 53:2-3; Colossians 2:9-10

There have been some extremely intelligent people who have concluded that there is a God and that God is the Great I Am of the Bible. Luke records the story of Paul coming to Athens following incidents in Thessalonica and Berea. Coming upon a city full of idols, Paul is drawn to an altar with the inscription, To an unknown God. The Athenians would spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new. Paul, seizing on the inscription, To an unkno...wn God began to proclaim Jesus as the God that was unknown to the philosophers of Athens. His message was as follows: For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’ Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead. Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, We shall hear you again concerning this. So Paul went out of their midst. But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them. Paul’s encounter with the Athenians can be seen as a presentation of the gospel of the Lord. The text takes us from a simple stating of facts that resonated to some who came to seek more from the apostle to some becoming believers and followers of the Lord. Pastor Dwight <><

God chastised Israel for their lack of trust in Him as demonstrated in their refusal to obey Him. In Malachi 2:17 the Lord said, You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied Him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delights in them,’ or, ‘Where is the God of justice?’ In the history of Israel they too often criticized God for His actions and quite often in His inaction. God’s apparent inac...tion should not be read as God’s indifference toward us or even as a desire of God to get back at us. It was not only the Israelites who strayed from God and went after idols such as money, sex, power, drugs, and possessions. We in the 21st century are as guilty as those of the Old Covenant of straying and then crying out, Where’s God! Keep in mind that when God seems far away it is not because he moved from us, it is because we moved from us. When you feel estranged from God, what you need is a big breath of fresh air. That is to say it is time to drink in anew the blessings of the indwelling Spirit of God. Job said, For the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the almighty gives me life (Job 33:4). The Spirit of God brings new zeal, enthusiasm, and wonder. Breathe deeply and take in the joy, peace, and self-control the Lord will bring to your life. Scriptures: Malachi chapters 1 and 2; Job 33:4; Romans 10:2; Ephesians 5:22-33