The alabaster jar
I wanted to share this poem primarily because I found it strikingly beautiful. The woman with the alabaster jar She knew the lines of a man’s back as well as she knew the taste of decanted fig-wine, or...
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Stories of Flesh and Blood
Text: Ephesians: 2:11-22 Full Draft of Sermon Had one of the best comments possible I think – a 4 year old at McDonald’s after service commented on the sermon. The stories in the world today –...
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Gold Bricks, Rotting Corpses and Dead Phone Lines…
Text: Mark 9:30-37 Full Sermon Draft That title or the graphics might be a little macabre, but just give a listen (or a read). Every now and then you come across a story that has meaning beyond the...
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Incarnate – Christmas Day
Biblical Text: John 1:1-19 Full Sermon Draft Our soundmaster included a bunch of the service from this morning. The message is from John, but the hymns and carols selected tell the same story. Merry...
View ArticleDaily Lectionary Podcast – Exodus 15:19-16:12 and Hebrews 10:1-18
Exodus 15:19-16:12 Hebrews 10:1-18 Who is our enemy and rejoicing at their fall, Proper complaints about authority, Shadows & Reality Praise Be to Christ – Lutheran Service Book 538 Note: When I...
View ArticleDaily Lectionary Podcast – Genesis 21:1-21 and Mark 6:35-56
Genesis 21:1-21 Mark 6:35-56 The slave child and the free child (Paul’s Allegory) All Israel & God no longer “passing by” but getting into the boat with us
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A Great and Mighty Wonder
Biblical Text: John 1:1-14 Key Hymn: A Great and Mighty Wonder, LSB 383 Full Sermon Text Maybe it is just getting older, but two things I experience daily that a younger man wouldn’t think could...
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Truly, Truly, I Say to You
Biblical Text: John 10:1-10 Full Sermon Draft The text is the fascinating precursor to the “good shepherd” passages. In the context, precursor is the wrong word because the first 6 verses of John 10...
View ArticleFrom Heaven Above (A Shepherds and Angels Children’s Pageant)
Click to view slideshow. Today was our Children’s Pageant. The pageant this year was built around the hymn “From Heaven Above to Earth I Come”. That is LSB 358 is you would like to see all 15 verse by...
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Christmas Day
Christmas-Day-2019Download A meditation on the Hebrews 1:1-6 reading – the Word Spoken long ago in many ways, today made ours.
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