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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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  • Preaching/teaching that is centered on the Word of God
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We welcome you to worship with us each Sunday morning at 9:00am. Coffee and fellowship follow worship.

 

August 9, 2026 
 
Dear friends in Christ grace and peace to you. The message for this week comes from 
1 Kings 19:9-18.
 
This week’s reading from 1Kings finds the prophet Elijah hiding out in a cave. This text follows a challenge that Elijah initiated between King Ahab and the God of creation. Ahab was turning his people away from worshiping God and toward worshiping Baal a Canaanite god, the image of a bull signifying strength and fertility. As prophets do, Elijah was preaching the word from God which of course wasn’t popular with those who felt threatened by the truth. Ahab called Elijah a troublemaker. Elijah in turn responded that he wasn’t the troublemaker; Ahab was. And so the challenge was on to see who was more powerful, the Canaanite god Baal or the God of all creation. You can read the story in chapter 18 but the God of creation won the contest hands down. Ahab didn’t take the news well and so we begin our reading for this week with Elijah hiding out where the Lord finds him and questions Elijah why he is hiding out. God is not finished with Elijah and sends him out to stand on the mountain in the presence of God.  But after a powerful wind, an earthquake and a fire God has not yet appeared to Elijah. Finally in the silence, Elijah hears God whisper to him.

As I read this week’s text I could hear the words of the Simon and Garfunkel song “The Sound of Silence.” 
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
And the words that it was forming
And the sign said
"The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sound of silence
  
Like the people of Israel we too sometimes follow other gods, things that we think bring us comfort and stability. The noise of the world tends to drown out the word of God. There are likely some subliminal messages of old that keep coming into our minds reminding us of the one true God. Elijah hid out for fear of his life. But God had other plans for Elijah, his work was not done. The word of God came to Elijah in the sound of silence. Perhaps the lesson for us in this text is that we too look for God in the wrong places. When we are quiet and tune out the noise of the world and the loud voices of the false prophets it is in the silence that we hear the word of God and his direction for us. Psalm 46:10 reminds us to be still and know that I am God. 

May the peace of God be with all of you as you turn the volume of the world’s noise down and sit in the silence and hear the word of God spoken to you.
Michael Isaacson