Meet Your DailyLife Writers - Karla Pedrow

Karla edits DalyLife and is a writer and editor in her professional life.

Karla Pedrow with her husband Rick.

What do you like about serving in this ministry?

• Contributing to something that helps people gain a deeper understanding of the Bible and its relevance to their lives.

What do you find most challenging about serving in this ministry? 

• Having to cut copy when writers go long, knowing how much work they put into their lessons.

What’s one thing people might find surprising about you? (e.g., an experience, personality trait, taste in food or movies, award, etc.)

• The first (and only) sports award I received was in ski jumping. I was four at the time.

What’s your favorite book in the Bible?

• 2 Peter

What are your hobbies?

• ​Reading, cooking, spending time with family
  

10 Tweets on "The Making of a Selfish Superhero" (Judges 13:1-14:3)

Here's last weekend's sermon in 10 tweets.

Samson uses his super strength for selfish purposes his whole life. The whole community failed this superhero. His parents failed him. He failed himself. 

1/ Making a selfish superhero: The people of God fail to be the people of God.

2/ The Israelites bind their rescuer for acting like a rescuer. 

3/ When the people of God fail to live distinctive and devoted lives for God, they fail to be the people of God.

4/ Making a selfish superhero: Parents choose religion over a relationship with God.

5/ Religion without a relationship with God always becomes about manipulation. I do for God; he does for me.

6/ Israel is called first to love God. Relationship first, then the rules.

7/ Making a selfish superhero: The hero is wrong-sighted.

8/ She's wrong in God's eyes, but she is right in my eyes.

9/ What is evil in the sight of God becomes what is right in their own eyes.

10/ There's good news for you if you feel the weight of your guilt. If you redefine wrong as good, the good news will be bad for you.