Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

Be different! That's the message rom God to you today. Be different. Don't be like the people around you. Don't do what they do. You, be different. That's what God gold Old Testament Israel in the reading from Leviticus we heard today. Don't be like everyone else. Don't be like the world. Because you're not. You're mine. I am the Lord. Sometimes when we hear that phrase, I think we hear it like parents say it. Except that's not how God means it at all! I am the Lord is like the Invocation we hear at the beginning of every Divine Service here -- In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.