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Drammen Lutheran Church Mission Statement:

Called by God's grace and equipped by the Holy Spirit, we nurture and challenge each other to grow in proclaiming the good news of Christ Jesus through celebrating worship, studying God's word, and showing hospitality by serving our neighbors both here and around the world.

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We welcome you to worship with us each Sunday morning at 9:00am. Coffee and fellowship follow worship.

 

November 15, 2026  
Dear friends in Christ grace and peace to you. The message for this week comes from 
Zephaniah 1:7-18.

We don’t read from Zephaniah often in our lectionary series and when we read this week’s passage perhaps we are glad that we don’t. Zephaniah’s message is not good news. Zephaniah in this passage is speaking to the people of Judah and he makes God sound like an angry God who is on the verge of destroying everything and everyone who has turned away from him. Zephaniah’s message to the people of Judah now is the warning that destruction is coming. In fact, a day of judgment and slaughter did occur in Judah’s time when Babylon invaded Judah and reduced the beloved city of Jerusalem to ruins including the cherished temple. Innocent people were slaughtered, businesses were destroyed, and their place of worship was demolished. Everything that they lived for and cherished was taken from them. Zephaniah’s message to the people of Judah was that destruction is coming and here is why it’s going to happen. You have turned against God. You have become complacent in your life style. You seem to forget what all God has done for you. You don’t worship God and God only. So, you will be destroyed unless you repent and return to God. This was not good news but did the warnings from Zephaniah do any good? Did they change anything? No, just as Zephaniah had preached, destruction came on the people of Judah.

How is this passage relevant to us today? If we look back over history there has been a constant theme going on between God and his beloved people. The people cry out for relief, God answered and rescues them. In time however, the people forgot about the goodness and grace that God extends and before long they’re right back at their sinful ways of life which angers God, and he threatens to punish them unless they repent. This cycle has played out over and over throughout history. It kind of makes one wonder why we don’t learn from our past doesn’t it. But here we are again. We have become complacent once again when it comes to worshiping and putting God first in our lives. Zephaniah’s message of warning to the people of Judah is just as relevant to us today. Zephaniah promises that there will be a day of judgment for each of us. Of course we will plead innocent or maybe no contest. But in reality we are all guilty as charged. So where is the hope in this passage for us this week? Judgment for each of us is coming, that we can be assured of. We don’t know when that day will come but Zephaniah’s warning is to repent and return to God and to do it now. When we admit our sinfulness and own it before God, we then have faith that God’s mercy and grace will prevail. In Hebrews 11:1 we are reminded that “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”
Perhaps the question for each of us this week is this: are we confident in our hope of eternal life and do we trust in the God we cannot see? If we are not, what are we going to do about it?

May the peace of God be with all of us as we contemplate God’s call for us as his followers.
Michael Isaacson