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  • Balancing the Scales with Grace (Matthew 5:38-48)

    Balancing the Scales with Grace (Matthew 5:38-48)

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    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…

  • St. Valentine (Circuit Winkel) (Matthew 5:38-48)

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    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…