Redeemer Lutheran and St. Theodore

On Sunday, Jan. 28, the congregations of Redeemer Lutheran Church and St. Theodore of Canterbury Episcopal Church will celebrate the fourth Sunday after Epiphany with Bishop Murray Finck. Carol Costello will be the reader and prayer leader.

The weekly worship service is held at 10:30 a.m. at 13564 St. Andrews Drive in Leisure World.

All are welcome. As always, the congregation is collecting non-perishable food donations of canned and boxed foods for the hungry.

On the last Sunday in January, the congregations will study two moments of Jesus’ authority. The first is within the synagogue. Jesus taught with authority. He obviously said something new or unusual; readers are not told what it was, but it was something that people had to comment on and be amazed.

The second was still in the synagogue but was an action: Jesus commanded the unclean spirit that was torturing a man to come out and it did.

Jesus was not just a man of words but also a man of actions. He taught frequently, usually in parables, but he also did things. He healed, fed and touched people. His words and actions are in sync. Jesus’ word and actions are the transforming

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message. Believers can say they are people of faith and they are Christians. However, what believers do displays their faith and what it means to be a Christian. It is through hope and grace that every believer’s word and actions are in sync and send a transforming message to others.