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What are the children doing? Today I brought with me some ways to measure time. · Sand timer—if this was bigger, it might be...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Nov 20, 20226 min
What Holds Us Together?
Water is powerful, but it’s everywhere, so it’s easy to take water for granted. Which sounds to me kinda like Jesus...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Nov 13, 20225 min
What Came First? God.
You ever find yourself reading along in the Bible and suddenly you notice—HEY, I KNOW THOSE WORDS. THOSE ARE SONG LYRICS. This happened...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Nov 6, 20226 min
All Saints
Does anyone else just love it when you’re filling out an online form and at the end of the form, before you can press the button to...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Oct 30, 20224 min
Child of God, You Are Set Free
We are remembering who we are and where we come from—in baptism, we become children of God.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Oct 16, 20228 min
How to Persist in Faith
Where do you get the energy to keep going? Who else has had to put up with day after day of bad news?
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Oct 9, 20226 min
Healing in Community
This Gospel lesson makes me wonder. Who is worthy of healing? Is it the people who suffer the most pain, or whose suffering is most...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Oct 2, 20228 min
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?
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Sep 25, 20229 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, 20226 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, 20224 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, 20227 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, 20225 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, 20227 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, 20227 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, 20229 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, 20226 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, 20228 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, 20227 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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