Description When you find someone in life who gives you companionship and confidence, you hold on to that person. Jesus wants to be with you and encourage you with his saving power. So hold on to him in faith, especially when you're afraid or having doubt!
Jesus' Living Water Quenches Your Thirst for Someone to Be in Control
Description (Note: There were some audio issues during the recording process. We hope to have it corrected next week.)
Our series on our New Testament stained glass windows continues. In a year that has seen everything from a global pandemic to urban unrest, we look at Jesus silencing a storm with a single sentence. Then we know that everything in our lives will be OK because Jesus is both the Creator and our Savior.
Jesus' Living Water Quenches Your Thirst for Understanding
Description Inside every human being is a thirsty to understand the meaning of this life. In a boat on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus helps us understand life within the context of the kingdom of heaven. Jesus doesn't use tricks of modern day blogging, but his teaching unlocks secrets no selfie sticks or webcams could reveal. Come to Jesus and drink the living water of his understanding.
Jesus' Living Water Quenches Your Thirst for Righteousness
Description This Sunday we began a sermon series on our stained glass windows from the New Testament.
As we wade through all the wrong things we have done and in a world where we see so much sin, the window of Jesus' baptism invites us to wade into the waters of the Jordan River and find in Jesus a righteousness which quenches our thirst for things to be made right between God and us.
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Last Sunday we emphasized the Chrisitian education aspect of our congregation's ministry. Christian education is not just for cute Sunday schoolers, young adults in catechism class, or those at a Lutheran high school. Paul's letter to Titus makes it clear that if a congregation wants to be health, Christian education must be a congregational-wide affair -- young and old, male and female.
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When we endure hardships because of our faith in God, we don't have to "play the victim" before him. The Lord understands both what he will do through us and will do for us, just as he understood what he was doing through and for Jeremiah the prophet.
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A memorial set up on the first day Israel entered the Promised Land serves as an encouragement to you to memorialize the meaning of God's love and faithfulness in your life.
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A suprising encounter filled with racial and cultural tension shows you Jesus' unprejudiced mercy, his limitless power, and what great faith does.
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God is so good at providing for our needs that he makes it look easy. A closer look at the way he used Joseph to provide for people's needs in 1800 BC better help us appreciate the skill, power, and mercy he shows in the ways he provides for us in 2020 AD, both by his own hand and through others.
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There is no reason to be jealous of King Solomon that God gave him, already a rich man, a blank check, so to speak. God has already made you rich through faith, and like he did with Solomon, God wants to make you even richer.
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There is evil and are evil people all around us. Sometimes, it's even hard to even spot them. As eager (or impatient) as it might make us to take help out our God and take matters into our own hands, Jesus teaches and promises that he'll sort it all out in the end.
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The coronavirus cliches have been coming at you fast and furios the last few months. Let's reclaim one of them from a biblical perspective. The Apostle Paul tells you that you have someone who is with you in whatever situation you find yourself in.
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The world is full of sinners who blaspheme God, persecute Christians, and carry out violence in general. But that didn't stop Christ Jesus come into the world with his abundant grace for every sinner, including them "out there" and you right here.
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Sandwiched between word pictures about animals and agriculture, real estate and home builds, Jesus tells us the kind of person who gets into his eternal kingdom in heaven.
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Whenever we celebrate Trinity Sunday (as we did this last weekend), we pause to reflect that God is three distinct persons -- Father, Son, and Spirit -- in one undivided God. We pause to reflect on that, but we don't hesitate to go and tell others about him and live our Christian lives.
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The coronavirus (and now civil unrest) has changed the way we work, sudy, shop, and even worship. What will things be like after we get the situation under control? The prophet Joel tells us and the Day of Pentecost shows us.
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Forty days after Jesus rose from the dead, the disicples lost physical sight of him as he ascended into heaven. The comfort for them and us is that Jesus never loses sight of Scripture's promises nor of his people.
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How much is a life worth? Economists and government officials wrestle with that as they pass stimulus bills and plan for business re-openings. The Apostle Peter answers the how-much-is-a-life-worth question from the spiritual side.
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Like he knew his apostles' thoughts and was able to powerfully speak right to them, so your risen Savior knows exactly what you're thinking and speaks his peace right to those thoughts.
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Easter Sunday's sermon shows that even as we wait to declare victory over COVID-19, we already declare victory over sin, death, and an aimless life -- all thanks to God!
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Humor. Pleasure-seeking. Panic. Constant comparing of exper opinoins. These are just some of the ways people deal with the fact that death is all around us. The Christian's approach is different and leads to true life, now and hereafter.
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With all the focus on social distancing and body positioning, this sermon text gives us a chance to consider how Jesus positioned himself to serve us and now positions us to serve others.
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When you find someone in life who gives you companionship and confidence, you hold on to that person. Jesus wants to be with you and encourage you with his saving power. So hold on to him in faith, especially when you're afraid or having doubt!
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Inside every human being is a thirsty to understand the meaning of this life. In a boat on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus helps us understand life within the context of the kingdom of heaven. Jesus doesn't use tricks of modern day blogging, but his teaching unlocks secrets no selfie sticks or webcams could reveal. Come to Jesus and drink the living water of his understanding..jpg)
This Sunday we began a sermon series on our stained glass windows from the New Testament.