Stories of Grace | Lenten Worship - March 11, 2026

My walk with Jesus really changed after we joined Living Word Church. Before Living Word, I I was just an average Lutheran. You know, I went to church when it was convenient. The kids went to Sunday school in confirmation. We did all the normal church stuff when it was convenient for us. Tristan calls it a a back pocket Lutheran. Back pocket Jesus guy. Yeah. Yeah. Back pocket Jesus. I call it a lazy Lutheran. Yeah. [00:18:52] (32 seconds)  #FromLazyToCommitted

she really showed me how to live out faith and be a crazy Christian. And there's so many others around too, pastor Dave, Al Holland. I mean, I was just surrounded with people. The list goes on and on that I've met that had and I had to learn from them. All these people that wanted to see Jesus' plan accomplished more than their own. Yeah. That's awesome. [00:23:39] (28 seconds)  #HeedTheNudge

Greg. Yeah. Yep. What I've learned really in my life is that the Lord will tap you a little bit or give you a little nudge, and you can think about that. But if you don't take it, you take it take it up. Usually, there's a little bit bigger nudge and then sometimes there's a thrashing that comes at the end. Yeah. Absolutely. And sometimes those taps are telling you, the Lord is just talking to me and telling me that I need to get [00:13:54] (29 seconds)  #SavedForPurpose

One of the biggest events in my life, I was farming by Redwood Falls, and I got my leg tore off in a power take off shaft. Mhmm. And they sewed it back on. And through that whole process, you know, I should have really been dead, but the Lord had more work for me. Yeah. they told me I couldn't farm anymore or I shouldn't. And then I was slow to learn that. [00:14:47] (43 seconds)  #VerseByVerse

But the Holy Spirit really started moving in my life after living word. And I I met this long I met though I met this wild long haired ponytailed preacher. And listening to this crazy guy, and for the first time I ever ever in my life, I needed a bible to to follow along. You know, his sermons went from from verse to verse to verse, [00:19:24] (40 seconds)  #FoundMyBible

We gotta go on again. Yeah. We we can't stop there. We we're just getting into it. Yeah. We're just we're just starting to get into it. So I needed my bible. I found that out. And it was probably right on your nightstand. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Right. You know, we had moved to Slaton, and I didn't even know where it was. I had opened box after box to find this bible that was my confirmation bible. [00:20:09] (22 seconds)  #ChurchComesFirst

to this depth of a relationship with Jesus and God, and and and I was missing out on it. As Jesus grabbed the hold of your life and you live in the word, you know, it would transform your plans and change your plans, and the plans he has are better. And that brings me to my, like, my favorite bible verses, Jeremiah twenty nine eleven through 13. [00:24:08] (25 seconds)  #MentorsMatter

Yeah. So that he suggested Jeannie, and Jeannie came to work for me. And and that's when I first really started to see, a relationship, what a relationship with Jesus should look like. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not I gotta breathe. And then another nudge came from the Lord. That was in, like, 02/2010 when the church was going through all its turmoil. Mhmm. And Jan and I were looking for a church, [00:16:46] (34 seconds)  #FindingChurchCommunity

All these people that wanted to see Jesus' plan accomplished more than their own. Yeah. That's awesome. to this depth of a relationship with Jesus and God, and and and I was missing out on it. As Jesus grabbed the hold of your life and you live in the word, you know, it would transform your plans and change your plans, and the plans he has are better. And that brings me to my, like, my favorite bible verses, Jeremiah twenty nine eleven through 13. Okay. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me. [00:23:56] (53 seconds)

All these people that wanted to see Jesus' plan accomplished more than their own. Yeah. That's awesome. to this depth of a relationship with Jesus and God, and and and I was missing out on it. As Jesus grabbed the hold of your life and you live in the word, you know, it would transform your plans and change your plans, and the plans he has are better. And that brings me to my, like, my favorite bible verses, Jeremiah twenty nine eleven through 13. Okay. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me. [00:23:56] (53 seconds)

This depth of a relationship with Jesus and God, and and and I was missing out on it. As Jesus grabbed the hold of your life and you live in the word, you know, it would transform your plans and change your plans, and the plans he has are better. And that brings me to my, like, my favorite bible verses, Jeremiah twenty nine eleven through 13. Okay. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me. [00:24:08] (40 seconds)