Month: February 2017
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The Transfiguration of Our Lord (2 Peter 1:16-21)
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Lebanon, OR The Transfiguration of Our Lord + February 26, 2017 Text: 2 Peter 1:16-21 On the Mount of Transfiguration, Peter, James, and John have a great experience. They saw Jesus transfigured before their very eyes, so that “his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.” They…
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Balancing the Scales with Grace (Matthew 5:38-48)
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Lebanon, OR Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany + February 19, 2017 Text: Matthew 5:38-48 It’s the way of justice, the way of accounting, and the way of nature. An eye for an eye, reconcile every transaction, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. That’s fine for crime and punishment, economics, and…
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St. Valentine (Circuit Winkel) (Matthew 5:38-48)
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Lebanon, OR St. Valentine (Circuit Winkel) + February 14, 2017 Text: Matthew 5:38-48 We know what we’ve heard about Valentine’s Day since we were kids. It’s about love. But as with most things of God which the world gets a hold of, it gets turned into a human parody of the real…
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Humanity Recreated in Christ (Matthew 5:21-37)
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Lebanon, OR Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany + February 12, 2017 Text: Matthew 5:21-37 Since Jesus said, “I have come not to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill them,”[1] we are called as Christians to take a whole new look at the Old Testament because, since the Christ came,…
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Distinguishing Law and Gospel (Matthew 5:13-20)
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Lebanon, OR Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany + February 5, 2017 Text: Matthew 5:13-20 C.F.W. Walther once wrote, “The true knowledge of the distinction between the Law and the Gospel is not only a glorious light, affording the correct understanding of the entire Holy Scriptures, but without this knowledge Scripture is and…