Category: Sunday
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Ninth Sunday after Trinity Confirmation in the Christian faith of Greta E. Gramzow and Ian A. Miller Readings: 2 Samuel 22:26–34 | 1 Corinthians 10:6-13 | Luke 16:1-13 Text: 2 Samuel 22:26–34 “Knowing God vs. Not Knowing Him” Those who don’t know Him see him as: But those to whom the Holy Spirit has made Him known see Him…
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St. Mary Magdalene (observed)
Readings: Proverbs 31:10-31 | Acts 13:26-31 | John 20:1-2, 10-18 Text: Proverbs 31:10-31 Many admonishments in Scripture speak to human sins that are more commonly male: sexual immorality, guarding the tongue, fits of anger, etc. Yet, sin corrupts both men and women alike. The man who was possessed by a legion of demons in Mark…
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Seventh Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Genesis 2:7-17 | Romans 6:19-23 | Mark 8:1-10 Text: Mark 8:1-10 “How can one [man] satisfy these people with bread in this desolate place?” (v. 4) Exacerbated by evolutionary assumptions, the biggest common factor is that there is no God. What are the odds of the first? True, it’s now the dominant view which contributes…
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Sixth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Exodus 20:1-17 | Romans 6:1-11 | Matthew 5:17-26 Text: Matthew 5:20-26 For centuries, the first thing those learning the Christian faith encountered has been the Ten Commandments. We think they are elementary, and therefore easy to do. After all, they sound so simple: We would like the Commandments to be tame, manageable. As easy as following the…
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Second Sunday after Trinity
Holy Baptism of Seth & Wayne Burton and Jonathan Womack Readings: Proverbs 9:1-10 | 1 John 3:13-18 | Luke 14:15-24 Text: 1 John 3:13-18 The word “love” has taken on a life of its own. It’s as if everyone has their own private dictionary of what they want it to mean. So many interpret it…
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First Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Genesis 15:1-6 | 1 John 4:16-21 | Luke 16:19-31 Text: Genesis 15:1-6 “The Here and Now for the Now and Not Yet.” St. Paul comments on these verses in Genesis by saying, “In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall…
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Feast of The Holy Trinity
Readings: Isaiah 6:1-7 | Romans 11:33-36 | John 3:1-17 Text: Isaiah 6:1-7; John 3:1-17 Who is God? That question is the foundation all religion, all spirituality, all philosophy, all science, and all human knowledge. The answer to that question affects how we understand everything. The atheist answers the question by saying no one is God.…
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Feast of Pentecost
Readings: Genesis 11:1-9 | Acts 2:1-21 | John 14:23-31 Text: John 14:23-31 How will you manifest yourself to your own but not the world? By the keeping of the Word of Christ. Many have asked in previous generations how you can tell the difference between Christians and unbelievers. Is it the number of good things…
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Sunday after the Ascension (Exaudi)
Readings: Ezekiel 36:22-28 | 1 Peter 4:7-14 | John 15:26-16:4 Text: John 15:26-16:4 Following the format which Martin Luther taught to his barber, Peter, in the tract known as “A Simple Way to Pray” This is the Sunday after the Ascension of Jesus, and what it must have been like for the disciples! Their final…
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Sixth Sunday of Easter (Rogate)
Readings: Numbers 21:4-9 | 1 Timothy 2:1-6 | John 16:31-33 Text: John 16:31-33 Isn’t it interesting that peace is usually the thing that everyone can agree on? You never see protests calling for war. Peace symbols adorn bumper stickers, but what sane person ever aspired to bloodshed? So also in the current political atmosphere, the…