Hello,

My name is Willard Uhler, and I am Pastor of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church located at 99 Church street in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. 

I want to welcome you to visit our web-site and invite you to participate in our congregational activities.

This month we celebrate Father’s Day, a day when we recognize and share our appreciation for all the good things that our fathers have done for us.
 

Jesus shared with us and his initial disciples how important his Father was for Him. Jesus demonstrated this by taking private time to be with his father in spirit and in prayer.
Jesus had a very personal and loving relationship with his father. We know this as a fact because when his disciples asked him for a prayer, he started: ‘Our Father, who art in heaven…” Jesus use of the word: “Father” in the opening of the Lord’s Prayer had the special, intimate meaning of: “Daddy.” In the Old Testament the word used for God our father was never intimate, never close. They viewed God our father as someone being far away. However, Jesus teaching in the New Testament changed all of that.

Jesus’ teaching reminds us that God our Father is not far away. He is always with us. He sees and knows everything that we say and do. Does that mean that God punishes us when we have done wrong ? NO! But he allows us to take responsibility for our actions which may seem at the time that he is punishing us God our father loves us . He is always with us. He loves us unconditionally.

Our earthly fathers are called to imitate him by being close to us, praising us when we do well and there to help us take responsibility when we make a wrong decision. Then in turn, we are to go to him and be with him as Christ was with his father.

Have a blessed Father’s Day

Pastor Uhler