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Remember
Lent 1B Genesis 9:8-17 Our reading today from the Old Testament is the closing scene of one of the most widely recognized stories from the bible. The flood, the big boat, the animals two by two, the...
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Be Raised
Lent 2B Mark 8:31-38 A friend of mine wrote on his Facebook status: Christians are called to: Go, Suffer, Die, and Be Raised. The problem in this is that the only thing we want to participate in is the...
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Let Us Love
Lent Wednesday Evening Service 3/4/2015 Matthew 22:34-40 34When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, 35and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test...
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Love You, Neighbor!
Lent Wednesday Sermon March 11 2015 Luke 10:25-37 25Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26He said to him, “What is written in the...
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Even So
Easter 2B John 20:19-31 “…the doors of the house where [they] met were locked for fear…” This is the opening scene of our Gospel text for today and a description of Jesus’ disciples on that first...
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Welcome Advent, We’ve Been Waiting For You
Advent 1C November 29th 2015 Is it really the first Sunday of Advent? Are we sure about that? This week I opened a new folder on my computer; I have one for each church year which begins with the first...
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The Island of Misfit Toys
O Key of David and scepter of the House of Israel; you open and no one can shut; you shut and no one can open: Come and lead the prisoners from the prison house, those who dwell in darkness and the...
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The Inception of Advent
Advent 2C 2015 Malachi 3:1-4 Luke 3:1-6 Have you ever had one of those nights when you couldn’t sleep and you are sitting in front of your television, channel surfing, sort of mindlessly or at...
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Charlie Brown Christmas
Luke 2:8-14 Isaiah 53:1-5 O Root of Jesse, standing as a sign among the peoples; before you kings will shut their mouths, to you the nations will make their prayer: Come and deliver us, and delay no...
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The Heart of Stone
Ezekiel 36:26 O Dawn of the east, O Bright Morning Star, Splendor of light eternal and sun of righteousness: Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death For several years I...
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Revolutionary Singing
Luke 1:39-56 Central America is an area known for its political upheaval and turmoil. Our mental picture of this region probably contains dictators and civil war, guerrilla warfare and drug...
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And so on and so on….
Christmas 2C Luke 2:41-52, Matthew 1:1-17 Perhaps the single most boring part of the gospels is the ancestry list in the first chapter of Matthew. The only challenger to this title of Most Boring...
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The Witness
Christmas 2C John 1:1-18 In the beginning…that wonderful ‘once upon a time’ sounding phrase from God. Makes us think that we are going to get to hear a great story! We hear In the Beginning...
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When You Pass Through The Waters
Baptism of Our Lord Year C Isaiah 43:1-7 Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 One of the interesting things I noticed when I became a Lutheran some years ago was the amount of time people spent talking about baptism....
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JustUs
A couple of weeks ago, as I was preparing for this gathering*, I watched a documentary on racism. It explained, from a scientific perspective, how foolish the idea of multiple human races actually is....
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Glimpse
Transfiguration C Exodus 34:29-35 Luke 9:28-43 In the Gospel text for today Jesus goes up on the mountain to pray. Not only might this be interesting to those of us who live in the midst of such...
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God Impositions Us
This is an older Ash Wednesday homily re-posted by request. Blessed Lent to you all. Earlier this week, as the church secretary was preparing to send out information on our Lenten activities, she came...
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Loser
Here we begin our Lenten journey, the 40 days of preparation for Easter. It is the beginning of our journey to the cross. Seems like just yesterday we were celebrating the coming of the wise men to see...
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The Greatest of These
Today is a day we celebrate a very famous saint and he is probably every bit as well known as St Nicholas. It is St Valentine’s Day. Over this past week, everywhere you looked, people were talking...
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Gravel In The Heart
Lenten Wednesday Matthew 5:21-24 21“You have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, ‘You shall not murder’; and ‘whoever murders shall be liable to judgment.’ 22But I say to you that if...
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