Drammen Lutheran Church

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.

 

Thank you for visiting our website!

Here you will find information concerning our church and its ministries. We want you to feel comfortable and at liberty to call on us for anything you need. Feel free to browse through the various areas of our website and learn about our fellowship.

If you are considering a new place of worship or a relocation to our area, we would love to have you be our guest.

When you visit our church, you will find:

• A caring congregation that will gladly welcome you
• Preaching/teaching that is centered on the Word of God
• Activities for the whole family

 

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

 

August 2, 2026  
Dear friends in Christ grace and peace to you. The message for this week comes from 
Isaiah 55:1-5.

Very few things in life are free and when things are offered to us at no cost we are generally wary of those offers. We are wary because we know that few things in life are free. If they are free there are usually some strings attached, some hidden requirement from us. Abraham Lincoln is credited with this quote: "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time" A very true statement and many of us probably have fallen at one time or another into the category of being fooled some of the time.

In our text for this week Isaiah quotes the Lord as saying come and eat and drink for free. The people of Israel had been offered God’s free gifts before but they wandered away from God and began to worship idols. God had made a covenant with people of Israel. And that covenant was a promise, a contract between God and the people of Israel that as long as they worshiped God and only him then they would live a life of peace free from aggressive behavior from their enemies. But, the people of Israel didn’t keep their part of the promise. But here is God once again offering the people of Israel free living water. 

There are several references to living water throughout scripture. God offers water to the Israelites as they wandered through the desert with Moses. Jesus offers the Samaritan woman at the well the opportunity to drink the living water. What is so amazing in the story we get this week is that God is willing to let bygones be bygones, he is willing to forget our sinful past and once again invites us to come to him with all of our burdens and all of our baggage, leave it at his feet and to drink and to eat with him at his table. It is a choice given to us each and every day. Do I seek the living water or do I continue to wander aimlessly through life with no thought given to the one who makes life possible? God’s invitation to join him and to trust in him is always open and available to us. The choice is ours. The free gifts await us and for these free gifts no strings are attached. The gift of life is the free gift given to us by a God who loves us in spite of our sinfulness and wandering ways. 

May the peace of God be with all of you as you consider accepting God’s free gift of grace.
Michael Isaacson