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  • First Sunday in Lent

    First Sunday in Lent

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    ~ Invocabit ~ Readings: Genesis 3:1-21 | 2 Corinthians 6:1-10 | Matthew 4:1-11 Text: Matthew 4:1-11 In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. The Father honored the Son.  He didn’t just identify him as his Son when He spoke from heaven at His baptism.  He claimed him.  He called Him His beloved, expressing His love…

  • 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…

  • 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 (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…

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

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

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    Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Lebanon, OR First Sunday in Lent (Invocabit) + March 10, 2019 Text: Matthew 4:1-11 In Martin Luther’s Large Catechism, he explained the First Commandment this way: What is to have a god? What is God? 2 Answer: A god is that to which we look for all good and in which we…

  • The Ever-Effective Weapon Against the Devil (Matthew 4:1-11)

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    Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Lebanon, OR First Sunday in Lent + March 5, 2017 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…