From the Pastor’s Message:

Happy August!

As we move into the warm summer months, we continue to meander through the long season of Ordinary Time within the church. However, the Gospel readings this month (Luke 12-14) remind us that Jesus is anything but ordinary. In these passages, Jesus speaks of urgency, division, and even setting the world on fire. He challenges priorities, disrupts comfort, and calls us to live with open hands and hearts.

In his encounters with the world around him, Jesus paints a vision of God’s Kingdom that is not marked by status or self-preservation, but by generosity, mercy, and inclusion. Whether he's healing on the sabbath or eating at the house of a Pharisee, Jesus regularly breaks religious and social norms to show us that God’s table is wide — and all are invited to the banquet. 

I hope you will join us for worship at the Lutheran Church of Arcata this month. Come and see how true abundance comes not from building bigger barns, but setting more tables in Jesus’ name.

God’s Peace,
Pastor Taylor