“The Lamb Who Judges” – The 18th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 20

September 22, 2024
Dear Friends in Christ Jesus,   It’s the cry of Jeremiah, surrounded by those who plot to take his life. But it’s worse than that. Reading through the rest of…
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Passage: Jeremiah 11:18-20 “The LORD made it known to me and I knew; then you showed me their deeds. But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, ‘Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.’”

” Prayer and Fasting” – The 17th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 19

September 15, 2024
Dear Friends in Christ:   A woman called her husband because a wolf had attacked the chickens. The first question he asked was, “Did he jump the fence or did…
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Passage: Mark 9:14-29 "And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.” And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.” But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”

“Follow Your Heart???” – The 15th Sunday after Pentecost

September 1, 2024
Dear Friends in Christ,   When I attended the seminary, the required reading list included a book by Swedish Lutheran theologian, Bo Giertz, called, "The Hammer of God."  This book…
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Passage: Mark 7:14-23 “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within...”

” Profound Mysteries and Perfect Marriages” – The 14th Sunday after Pentecost

August 25, 2024
I. Profound Mystery #1: Marriage Today our text speaks of profound mysteries and perfect marriages. The first begins like this: “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.…
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Passage: Ephesians 5:22-33 The Word of the Lord from Ephesians 5: “31’Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ 32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.”

“Redeeming the Time” – The 13th Sunday after Pentecost

August 18, 2024
Dear Friends in Christ Jesus,   Seems like good advice. Walk with care—not like a fool but like one who is wise. Redeem the time—make the most of it, because…
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Passage: Ephesians 5:15-20 “Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”

“Imitators of Christ” – The 12th Sunday after Pentecost

August 11, 2024
Dear Friends in Christ,   In his letters to Christian congregations of the 1st Century, St. Paul exhorts, encourages, and equips his readers to live the new life to which…
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Passage: Ephesians 4:30-5:2 "30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. 5 1 Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children 2 and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God."

“Out of the Many, One” – The 11th Sunday after Pentecost

August 4, 2024
Dear Friends in Christ,   Seven “ones”.   In those three verses I just repeated, the word “one” appears seven times. St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is all about…
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Passage: Ephesians 4:1-16 “There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”

“Word and Prayer” – The 10th Sunday after Pentecost

July 28, 2024
Dear Friends in Christ Jesus,   I. The Prayer: 3 Bold Petitions   I know that for the last two weeks Tim Graff has preached on the epistle readings from…
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Passage: Ephesians 3:14-21 14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit zin your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.  20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think,  according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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