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  • First Sunday in Lent

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    ~ Invocavit ~ Readings: Genesis 3:1-21 | 2 Corinthians 6:1-10 | Matthew 4:1-11 Text: Matthew 4:1-11 Doctors who fight infections are all too aware that having just one weapon isn’t enough.  Viruses and bacteria each respond differently to medication.  Sometimes a strain comes along that refuses to respond to treatment.  Then, newer, stronger, and more…

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    Invocavit

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    ~ First Sunday in Lent ~ Readings: Genesis 3:1–21 | Hebrews 4:14–16 | Matthew 4:1–11 Text: Matthew 4:1-11 The season of Lent is not a 6-week period of feeling bad for ourselves, bemoaning our inadequacy, or—God forbid!—feeling more pious than the rabble of the world.  It is a time of teaching, of catechesis, that we…

  • First Sunday in Lent

    First Sunday in Lent

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    Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Lebanon, OR Readings: Genesis 22:1-18 | James 1:12-18 | Mark 1:9-15 Text: Genesis 22:1-18 One of the sad realities of life is that people only get woken up to a problem when it affects them personally.  In war, they’re willing to send other sons into war, but hate to send their own. …

  • First Sunday in Lent (Matthew 4:1-11)

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    Jesus’ ministry begins not in a lush garden in the presence of God as it was in the beginning, but in the wilderness of a world that is under the curse of sin and death. His ministry after being baptized in the Jordan and declared to be the Son of God, goes immediately into the…