Month: September 2022
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Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: 1 Kings 17:8-16 | Galatians 5:25-6:10 | Matthew 6:24-34 Text: Matthew 6:24-34 Why do you suppose the Bible so often speaks of God providing for His people in times of wilderness, drought, and famine? Abraham and Isaac were kept alive in famine. Joseph went ahead into Egypt so that many would be kept alive…
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Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Proverbs 4:10-23 | Galatians 5:16-24 | Luke 17:11-19 Text: Luke 17:11-19 A young man I know who just turned five said the other day, “We don’t give anything to God. He gives everything to us.” This warmed my Lutheran pastor heart to hear! Out of the mouth of babes you have prepared praise! Already…
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Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: 2 Chronicles 28:8–15 | Galatians 3:15–22 | Luke 10:23-37 Text: Luke 10:23-37 It may surprise you that Martin Luther did not invent the question, “What does this mean?” Teaching the faith by asking questions is as old the Exodus, “And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you…
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Twelfth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Isaiah 29:17–24 | 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 | Mark 7:31-37 Text: Mark 7:31-37 How are you doing? How have you been feeling? This is how we greet people we care about. But how do we answer this question? We probably have an ideal that we’d judge by, kind of like if a medical professional told…