Sturtz Stuff

Sometimes you and I make life out to be more mysterious than it actually is. For example you could ask why you keep getting speeding tickets. Do you usually speed? If so then your speeding tickets are not that mysterious. Perhaps you might ask why your friendships are so full of conflict. Do you gossip about your friends? Is it that mysterious as to why your relationships have a lot of conflict when you gossip about them?  Often problems whose origins seem mysterious to us are really not that mysterious to others. The same is true for many of us who want the church to reach new people and are puzzled why that just isn’t happening. Maybe it’s not as mysterious as you think.  The stories about the Old Testament prophet Elijah are recorded in the last part of the book of First Kings and the first part of the book of Second Kings. We know very little of what Elijah said. We are told stories of wonders that he performed. He is probably known best for the challenge he issued the nat...