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Dear friends,

The Eighth Commandment is like a locked gate in a walled garden at midnight. We stand outside, pockets full of fruit we never planted, hearts pounding like burglars who just found out the Owner is awake and walking the paths.

Then the gate swings open–not with force, but by invitation. The Gardener steps out, hands scarred from thorns He never deserved, and says, “Why steal what I have already given?”

He presses the stolen apples back into our guilty fists, now warm from His own table, sliced and shared.

Suddenly, we are no longer thieves. We’re guests who have been caught and are now loved. When we stop pinching paradise, we realize we were invited to the feast all along. The lock was on the inside. We were stealing from a banquet where our place card already read, “Forgiven–come and eat.”

Take, give thanks, and pass the plate.

In Christ’s love,

Pastor Randy 

Join Us This Sunday

November 30, 2025

Old Testament: Exodus 20:1-2, 15

New Testament: Luke 19:1-10; Ephesians 4:28

SERMON: “From Takers to Table-Setters”

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Jesus’ apostolic community is basking in and inevitably pouring out light into a darkened world. And when that community moves out into its community, by simply being Christian, by simply telling the truth, the Light extends itself into that part of the world, too.” –Frederick Dale Bruner