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A New Location?

by TerryLema July 23, 2023

I went to lunch with a good friend recently. She asked me about how things were going with the transition from The Way to Christian Faith Center (CFC) Middleton. As we talked, I told her how I was a greeter at the CFC Caldwell location (which we are attending until the Middleton campus is refurbished and launched in September).

She asked me how I felt about standing at the door after so many years of standing behind the pulpit as head pastor. I guess it might seem a bit odd, but I love it.

There are two verses that I have always tried to live by.

The first is Colossians 3:17 and defines how I serve. “And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.” [HCSB]

Whatever I am called or asked to do, from standing behind the pulpit to standing at the door, I will try to do it in a way that honors the name of the LORD Jesus – giving thanks to my Father God for the opportunity and ability to serve.

My second verse is Proverbs 17:22 and defines how I try to face whatever comes my way in this life. “A merry heart does good like a medicine.” [NKJV]

I pray that whatever God asks of me, I will serve Him with a joyful heart.

July 23, 2023 0 comment
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Three Tabernacles

by TerryLema March 3, 2020

I must admit that I have often thought Peter was a dork when he was on the Mount of Transfiguration with Jesus, James and John. Moses and Elijah showed up to converse with Jesus and when they were departing, Peter jumped in, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah” — because he did not know what to say.” [Mark 9:5-6 NKJV]

What was Peter thinking? –that the three of them could just stay on the mountain with Jesus for the rest of their lives?

When I woke up Thursday morning, I knew exactly what Peter was thinking. I wanted to be back up on the mountain with Jesus. The presence of our LORD was so vivid while there, so amazing, I wanted to build three tabernacles, booths, tents, anything to remain there with Him.

But just as Jesus, Peter, James and John had to come down off that mountain top to face what Jesus called a “faithless and perverse generation,” so we had to leave the mountain experience and come down in the valley to face the lost and wounded. [v41]

Mountaintop experiences are meant as preparation for service among those needing salvation. We aren’t meant to live there away from everything, but to allow the experience of the magnificent LORD to live in us even amid our own faithless and perverse generation.

Peter discovered the truth of that and shared it in his second letter … “we were eyewitnesses of his majesty … when we were with Him on that sacred mountain.” [1:16,18 NIV]

I caught a glimpse of His majesty at the prayer Summit. I’m back in the valley again … but I’d rather be on the mountain.

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Pastor Terry Lema

Pastor Terry Lema has been married for 53 years, and has 3 children and 3 grandsons. Terry graduated from Trinity Bible College, and and recently retired as Lead Pastor at The Way Church in Middleton, Idaho.

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