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- Fourth Sunday of Advent – December 22, 2024 - Luke 1:39-45 So… here we have a young woman…likely between 13 and 15 years of age. She is a peasant…and she is engaged to a religious man. An angelic figure visits her saying that she has found favor with God and is going to conceive a son by the Holy Spirit. I know that …
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- Third Sunday of Advent – December 15, 2024 - Luke 3:7-18 What then should we do? That is what the crowds ask John the Baptist in today’s gospel. They are asking about the treatment that will begin to heal the hurt in their lives and world. It has been a familiar question in my life…and I bet it has been in your life too. …
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- Second Sunday of Advent – December 8, 2024 - Luke 3:1-6 Confession and Forgiveness Blessed be the holy Trinity, ☩ one God, alive in the world, reviving creation, arriving soon. Amen. Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another. Silence is kept for reflection. God of mercy, we confess that we have sinned. We trust earthly …
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- First Sunday of Advent – December 1, 2024 - Luke: 21:25-36 Sunday, December 1, 2024 First Sunday of Advent Confession and Forgiveness Blessed be the holy Trinity, ☩ one God, alive in the world, reviving creation, arriving soon. Amen. Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another. Silence is kept for reflection. God …
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- Christ the King – November 24, 2024 - John 18:33-37 I wonder about Christ the King Sunday. I wonder about Christ the King Sunday because unlike Lent and holy week and Advent… Which have been celebrated for more than 1000 years. Christ the King has only been a part of the Liturgical calendar since the 1920s. And it was added for…I think…political reasons? …
- 26th Sunday after Pentecost – November 17, 2024 - Mark 13:1-8 Do not be alarmed. That’s the first thing I have to say about today’s gospel. And it’s the same thing Jesus told the disciples. “Do not be alarmed.” Do not be disturbed or troubled by all these things. Do not be frightened. The Lord be with you. And also with you. …
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- 25th Sunday after Pentecost – November 10, 2024 - Mark 12:38-44 Many years ago…I went back to visit and preach at my home congregation in Green Bay. The sending hymn concluded…I stood in the back of the sanctuary…next to the baptismal font…greeting worshipers. A woman…I recognized from growing up in the congregation…approached me. She was crying too hard for me to totally understand what …
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- All Saints Sunday – November 3, 2024 - John 11:32-44 So…when I began thinking about this Sunday…All Saints Sunday…I thought about the baseball and football cards I collected when I was a boy. You remember…they had a picture of the athlete on the front and their stats on the back. And then a slice of bubble gum came with the card inside the …
- Reformation Sunday – October 27, 2024 - John 8:31-36 Reformation Sunday…a day in the liturgical year where we celebrate the protestant reformation…and there is indeed…a lot to celebrate. We’ve come a long way Baby. We are no longer under the Pope. Our clergy can marry…we let people read the Bible for themselves. We now ordain women. And so today we celebrate The …
- 22nd Sunday after Pentecost – October 20, 2024 - Mark 10:35-45 In today’s lesson…Jesus’ disciples…pay no attention to Jesus’ words. Instead…James and John…frequently called the sons of Zebedee…change the subject completely. They try to arrange a great eternal future for themselves. They want to sit on the left and right of the soon-to-be-risen Christ’s heavenly throne. The Lord be with you. And also …
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