You know the Way
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. And “no one comes to the Father—meaning ‘God’—except through me.” How many times have you...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Apr 30
- 5 min
The voice of the shepherd.
When do you hear the voice of someone you trust? What does their voice sound like in your mind or in your memory? How did you come to...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Apr 23
- 1 min
Pastor Cheryl gets a break!
The kids on the Green Team (and their mentor, Eve Cooney) take over the sermon to discuss the ways they are trying to be better stewards...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Apr 16
- 5 min
Christ’s peace is FOR YOU
You all get it. That’s why you’re here. It’s the Sunday after Easter, and typically, everyone put so much energy into celebrating Holy...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Apr 9
- 5 min
Resurrection is our story.
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! This is our holy story of resurrection. We’ve been telling this story during all of...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Apr 7
- 3 min
It is finished.
It is finished. The marathon runner collapses across the finish line, knees buckling beneath the weary weight of many miles. But there...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Apr 6
- 5 min
The Command to Love
Jesus gives us what we need, and then a little bit more. On Maundy Thursday, this is when we remember that Jesus celebrated the Last...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Mar 26
- 4 min
Can these bones live?
There’s a lot of love in this story about death and life. In much of John’s Gospel, Jesus can speak in a way that’s rather aloof, as if...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Mar 19
- 4 min
seeking: who sinned?
It’s kinda sad that humans are so skilled at asking all the wrong questions. The story in John’s Gospel of the man born blind is a...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Mar 12
- 8 min
Will You Give Me A Drink
This past Wednesday was International Women’s Day, a time to celebrate women around the world as they advocate and agitate and legislate...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Mar 5
- 5 min
How do we begin again?
There is a science to awe. Not “aw” as in “aw shucks” or “aw that’s too bad,” but awe, as in wonder or reverence or admiration or...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Feb 26
- 7 min
seeking: who will you listen to?
When Jesus was baptized, publicly affirmed by the voice of God, you might think that would be a kind of high point that would be a...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Feb 22
- 4 min
Is this the fast that I choose?
Perhaps you have noticed the questions—during Lent, every week when we gather for worship on Sundays and on Wednesdays, there will be a...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Feb 19
- 5 min
Welcome, Wonder
Perhaps you have noticed some interesting new words in the liturgy we’re using today, the words we use for worship. Most of these words...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Feb 5
- 10 min
Repairing the Breach
WHAT ARE THE CHILDREN DOING? Today we heard a strange word in the reading from the Old Testament. The prophet Isaiah said that when you...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jan 29
- 6 min
A Church With Purpose
A couple of weeks ago, our local newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, had a feature article with this title: “Revived for New...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jan 22
- 6 min
Prophetic Discipleship
Repent, Jesus says, and then he starts organizing. The reign of heaven is not a rhetorical device, not an imaginary place...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jan 8
- 6 min
Wear Your Forgiving Pants
Welcome back after the holidays! It’s a new year, we celebrated in some way, maybe gathering with loved ones, enjoying favorite...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Dec 24, 2022
- 6 min
The Light Shines in the Darkness
Because the light we carry here in worship is a symbol for us of the light of Christ that shines in our souls. And that’s what we will carr
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