Full of Grace and Truth

Faith & Fellowship Magazine
Written By Tim Mathiesen

November/December 2024

Full of Grace and Truth

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Jesus: God with Skin On
Women's Ministries, Partner in Mission, North American Mission, 2024-06
Jesus: God with Skin On
Women's Ministries, Partner in Mission, North American Mission, 2024-06

But Christmas is also a time for reflection on what Jesus actually did, in giving up his heavenly throne and becoming human: Jesus was God “with skin on!” As his kinfolk, can we follow his example in this season? Where do we see incarnational ministry―God’s love with skin on?

Women's Ministries, Partner in Mission, North American Mission, 2024-06
Jr. High Added to Bagirmi Mission School
Chad, International Mission, 2024-06
Jr. High Added to Bagirmi Mission School
Chad, International Mission, 2024-06

In early October, a new chapter began for the Gethsemané de Meube school in Chad. The school held its first week of classes for the brand-new junior high class.

Chad, International Mission, 2024-06
Caring for Adult Missionary Kids
International Mission, Chad, Taiwan, Japan, Missionaries, Missionary Kids, 2024-06
Caring for Adult Missionary Kids
International Mission, Chad, Taiwan, Japan, Missionaries, Missionary Kids, 2024-06

On the weekend of September 6-8, Lutheran Brethren International Mission (LBIM) hosted a retreat for former missionary kids at Inspiration Point Christian Camp & Retreat Center in Vining, Minnesota. This time away was meant for those who had spent a portion of their childhood as children of missionaries serving with the Church of the Lutheran Brethren.

International Mission, Chad, Taiwan, Japan, Missionaries, Missionary Kids, 2024-06
Fall 2024 Incoming Students
Disciple-Making, Unleash New Leaders, Lutheran Brethren Seminary, 2024-06
Fall 2024 Incoming Students
Disciple-Making, Unleash New Leaders, Lutheran Brethren Seminary, 2024-06

Get to know the five new students of Lutheran Brethren Seminary, starting the Fall 2024 semester.

Disciple-Making, Unleash New Leaders, Lutheran Brethren Seminary, 2024-06
Rooted Gap-Year Begins
Youth and Young Adults, Rooted Gap Year, Disciple-Making, Unleash New Leaders, Partner in Mission, North American Mission, 2024-06
Rooted Gap-Year Begins
Youth and Young Adults, Rooted Gap Year, Disciple-Making, Unleash New Leaders, Partner in Mission, North American Mission, 2024-06

The Rooted Gap Year program is off and running and I couldn’t be more thankful for the way things have started. We have eight incredible young adults from all over the country who have come to be discipled, to live in community, and to serve the Lord.

Youth and Young Adults, Rooted Gap Year, Disciple-Making, Unleash New Leaders, Partner in Mission, North American Mission, 2024-06
The Glory of God
Exodus, Leadership, Theology, 2024-06
The Glory of God
Exodus, Leadership, Theology, 2024-06

Called by God to lead this infant nation, Moses had been extracted by God from a sheep tending career and pressed into leading this strange adventure. People who knew nothing but slavery journeyed into the wonders of freedom in a land that would be their very own.

Exodus, Leadership, Theology, 2024-06
Dwelling Among Us
Disciple-Making, 2024-06, Mission of God, North American Mission
Dwelling Among Us
Disciple-Making, 2024-06, Mission of God, North American Mission

John 1:14 describes “The Word” (Jesus) as dwelling among us “full of grace and truth.” As a pastor, I hope that I regularly dwell with others as Jesus did, in the fullness of his grace and truth, but I don’t.

Disciple-Making, 2024-06, Mission of God, North American Mission
The Word Became Flesh
Advent, Theology, 2024-06
The Word Became Flesh
Advent, Theology, 2024-06

I’m more inclined to lose myself in the urgent, but relatively comprehensible, demands of a Christmas shopping list than to lose myself in meditation on the incomprehensible truth that “the Word” ––the One who is God––would become a man to bring the grace and truth of God to humanity.

Advent, Theology, 2024-06
Tim Mathiesen
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