REV. Zachery Sarrault, Associate PASTOR
Pastor’s Corner for June 22-28, 2025
Prayer Life
(Isaiah 65:1-9)
When was the last time you asked for help? Maybe it was a small thing, your spouse to pick something up from the store. Maybe it was bigger, your parents to give you a loan. There are many things we need help with, but we don’t like to ask for it! We don’t like to ask for help because it says something about us. If I ask for help, it means that I lack some ability, skill, strength, willingness, or knowledge on my own. Asking for help is saying, “I’m not good enough by myself” and no one wants to admit that.
This is our struggle from the very beginning. This is why Adam and Eve ate the fruit in the garden. They thought they were enough on their own. They thought they could live without God. This is where we fall into sin, when we think we don’t need God’s help. This is God’s great lament, working with a people that think they don’t need Him.
“I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’ to a nation that was not called by my name. I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices” (Isaiah 65:1-2)
God wants us to ask Him for help. His great desire is for us to talk with Him about our needs and joys. In these two verses we see that it saddens God when His people don’t talk to Him, when we don’t ask Him for help.
This is why God gives us His name. The 2nd Commandment tells us not to misuse God’s name, which we usually understand to mean, don’t use God’s name as a curse word, but there is more to it. Luther says that instead of just avoiding the misuse of God’s name we should “call upon it in every trouble, pray, praise, and give thanks.” In other words, ask God for help. His greatest desire is for us to talk with Him about anything and everything that is on our hearts. Whether you have a quiet time set aside to talk with God or whisper small prayers at moments of need and joy our prayer life is simply a constant conversation with God because we need Him. We can’t do life on our own and God doesn’t expect us to, so His ear is always bending down to us to listen to our every prayer. It is an awesome thing to have a such a relationship with the powerful God that we can actually talk with Him!
I leave you with a quote from John Kleinig’s Grace Upon Grace (a great book for devotional life!), “More than anything else, I would like to be good at praying. That’s what I have been called to do as a disciple of Christ; that’s my basic task as a member of God’s holy priesthood. I truly believe that much more is accomplished by prayer than by anything else I do.”
Your needy brother in Christ,
Pastor Zach Sarrault
Ordination and Installation of Pastor Zachery Sarrault (July 18, 2021):
Sunday was a great day at RLC! We celebrated the Ordination and Installation of our new Associate Pastor Zachery Sarrault. It was a beautiful service with a heartfelt sermon by his father, Pastor Joel Sarrault. Congratulations and welcome, Pastor Zach! Thank you to all who participated in this special day.
Pastor Sarrault Ordination and Installation
Pastor Zachery Sarrault Ordination and Installation Bulletin
From Pastor Zach (July 16, 2021):
Hey Resurrection Family!
Kelsey and I are finally here! We have finished up at St. Louis, seen family in Michigan, and moved into our new home. After all of that traveling and living out of suitcases, we couldn’t be happier to finally be back to something comfortable. Comfort is always something nice to hold on to. All of us have something that makes us comfortable, whether it be a family member or friend, a good book or fishing pole, a quilting machine or a wood shed, we all have our go-to comfort places. This is part of being human! We love comfort!
The thing with comfort is that sometimes we get too comfortable. We can settle in and tell ourselves that we never wish to see any change. “Life would be perfect if I could just stay in my recliner with Tom Sawyer all day.” Or whatever your comfort may be. Sadly, we know that this isn’t how life works. No matter how much we enjoy our comforts, ‘real life’ happens and it disrupts those little joys. But, is it ‘real life’ or is it God, calling us into His mission to do more than just the comfortable?
Jesus never led a life of comfort. From the manger to the cross and even the empty tomb, Jesus’ life was one of challenge and the uncomfortable. When one of the scribes declared that he would follow Jesus, all Jesus had to say was, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head” (Matt. 8:20). Kind of an odd response, one that rightly scared away the scribe. Probably would have scared me too!
So, what does this mean for us? Are we supposed to throw away all of our earthly comforts and live lives of asceticism? Not at all! But we are called to know where these comforts come from and who our ultimate comfort is. In all things, comfort or challenge, our Lord and Savior stands before us, behind us, and beside us. As Jesus prepared His disciples for life after His death and resurrection, Jesus told His followers, “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
There is our ultimate comfort! Not in our little hide-a-ways or indulgences, but in the One who has overcome all sin and who has promised us peace. Our comfort is in the faith that we have through Christ’s death and resurrection. Our comfort is in the kingdom of God that has already been given to us! That is a comfort that is never changing and never ending. No matter what God has in store the Sarraults in North Carolina, we know that the comfort of our Lord will always prevail!
In the comfortable and the uncomfortable, but always in Christ,
Pastor Zach Sarrault
From Pastor Jonathan (July 15, 2021):
There's a new face at Resurrection! Seminarian Zach Sarrault and wife Kelsey made it down to Cary last Monday, and soon-to-be "Pastor Zach" is already taking part in leadership team activities here at RLC. He will serve as Associate Pastor at Resurrection... meaning he will be working full-time in all aspects of ministry: preaching and teaching, visiting the homebound, discipling others, showing up at youth events, leading school and preschool chapel services, making friends in his neighborhood, evangelizing... and doing it all as one who is privileged to be an Under-Shepherd of the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ. We are very blessed to have him and Kelsey in our midst!
Though the Sarraults hail from Michigan they know a little bit about our area already since Zach served as Vicar at Hope Lutheran Church in Wake Forest from 2019 to 2020. At church you can find Pastor Zach in the Associate Pastor's office, next door to the main office on the left side. I look forward to working with Pastor Zach and seeing him welcomed as warmly by all of you as Juli and I were not so long ago! May God bless and further your ministry among us, Pastor!