Creation 3
The question isn’t whether you have enough faith; the question is: do you have a relationship of trust with a loving God?
Pr. Cheryl Walenta Gorvie Sermon - blog
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Sep 25
- 9 min
Creation 2
What are the children doing? I want to do an experiment—can you all help me? I have all these boingy things, and I’m going to give...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Sep 18
- 6 min
Creation
In this Season of Creation, we are taking these few weeks to give thanks for all that God has created...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Sep 11
- 4 min
The Universe
God created all that is, all the life we know here on earth, and also the planets and stars and moons and galaxies far beyond this earth.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Sep 4
- 7 min
Labor Day
But we’re not people without hope. We’re not disconnected from the earth.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Aug 28
- 5 min
God's work. Our hands.
But Jesus came to heal our brokenness. When he shows up at dinner, this isn’t relaxing time: this is a teaching moment.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Aug 14
- 7 min
Cloud of witness
But here’s the thing, and in fact, this is why we’re here today: Jesus didn’t come to teach us how to escape the world and all its mess; he
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Aug 1
- 7 min
Boundless!
Children’s Sermon: Do you know what “boundless” means? Perhaps you have played a big outdoor game in a field—the first thing to decide...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jul 10
- 9 min
Samaritan
Loving the neighbor is a concept that is in no way unique to Christians...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jul 4
- 6 min
Power
When I first read this part of the Bible about stepping on snakes and scorpions and not getting hurt, I was amazed. During the summers...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jun 27
- 8 min
3rd Sunday after Pentecost
What the children are doing: We just heard a really strange story from the Bible about a prophet named Elijah, and being a prophet is an...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jun 20
- 7 min
Juneteenth
Exorcising the demon. Jesus pulls up to the country of the Gerasenes on a boat. It isn’t far from where he grew up, but it might have...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jun 13
- 8 min
Trinity Synod Assembly
Every year, following the week-of-weeks of Easter when we remember the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ, and after the feast of...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jun 5
- 6 min
Holy Conspiracy
Master P was in St. Louis for a performance last weekend, and to promote the show, he gave an interview ahead of time. He was asked what...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- May 8
- 6 min
Hell? No!
Perhaps you also have heard that phrase—if you’re going through hell, keep going. In other words, don’t stop where you are.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Apr 3
- 9 min
Holy Communion
Mary of Bethany gives to Jesus an extravagant, expensive gift—pouring out fragrant oil upon Jesus’s feet and wiping his feet with her...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Mar 14
- 5 min
Under God's Wing
Imagine the thing you most want in the world, and God promised you would get that very thing, and then God didn’t deliver. Or God didn’t...
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