The Lamplighter
JULY  2009
Editor:  Lillian Geltz

From the Pastor’s Desk
What are our expectations of God? How do we perceive and understand God? Are our expectations and understandings influenced by our familiarity with the Bible or by our desires of how we want God to be and to act? If God doesn’t do what we expect or want, do we just stop believing or trying to get to know him? Have we formed or own opinion of who God is and what we believe by studying the Bible or just by our own wishes and what we want him to be?
Recently in Dallas, a “Husband Shopping Center” opened, where women could go to choose a husband from among many men. It was laid out with five floors, with the men increasing in positive attributes as one ascends the floors. The only rules: Once you opened the door to any floor, you must choose a man from that floor, and if you went up a floor, you couldn’t go back down except to leave the place, never to return.
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