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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Nov 12
- 6 min
All the light you need.
"Parables aren’t easy to interpret, and just like swimming in deep water, it’s wise to proceed carefully & [...] don’t go out there alone."
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Nov 4
- 4 min
As it is in Heaven
When we are bold enough to share our common humanity and bow our hearts before God, our worship becomes a testimony to God’s power to unite,
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Oct 28
- 7 min
Catholic: the churchy word for “inclusive”
God doesn’t change, but the world does. The Holy Spirit is always doing something new, so the church is always reforming...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Oct 14
- 4 min
Understanding is overrated.
Just don’t imagine that your lack of understanding is a liability in the presence of God. God knows we’re not perfect and loves us anyway.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Oct 7
- 8 min
Establishing the Rules
The Ten Commandments seem pretty straightforward, right? Over the past several weeks, as we’ve been progressing through reading the...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Sep 30
- 6 min
Season of Creation: Animals
...But can we learn something about God’s love from the visible excitement of a dog who welcomes you home with jumping and barking ...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Sep 23
- 6 min
Season of Creation: FOOD
The trouble with some parables is not that you cannot understand them, and today Jesus tells one such parable.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Sep 16
- 4 min
Season of Creation: WATER
Liberation can be messy and painful work. Just like water can be life-giving and dangerous.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Sep 9
- 7 min
Season of Creation: COSMOS
In these weeks of September, this season of creation, we’re looking at Scripture through the lens of what God has created.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Aug 26
- 5 min
What do you say?
One of my favorite all-camp games during my childhood years at church camp was called Romans and Christians. The campers were the...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Aug 19
- 6 min
Family disputes
Who speaks for you? Who do you trust enough that you would align yourself with someone else’s ideas? It’s complicated, right?
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Aug 12
- 5 min
Connecting Bible Stories
In the storms of life, which keep happening, God keeps showing up.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Aug 5
- 7 min
A Miracle of Grace
Listen carefully: the miracle is not the feeding of the five thousand men, besides women and children. This miracle is important enough...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jul 29
- 5 min
Have you understood all this?
Have you understood all this? Jesus asks his disciples. “Yes,” they say. Were the disciples lying to Jesus? “Yes, we understand all...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jul 22
- 5 min
Children of the kin-dom
Shine light, be who you are, and let the good grow. God is paying attention.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jul 8
- 6 min
Family Stories
God’s not out there making tally marks of good deeds but delighting in relationship with you, and all the rest of the family.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jul 1
- 7 min
God will provide.
After graduating college, I lived in Tokyo for a couple of years as a missionary with the ELCA. I got to live in a huge, exciting city,...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jun 24
- 5 min
Bird Watching
St. Louis is a wonderful place for watching birds: songbirds and migratory birds, sure, and with all the rivers around, there are also...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jun 17
- 5 min
Keep on moving!
Shake the dust from your feet. Easier said than done. I confess, sometimes it takes me a while to shake the dust from my feet, to let...
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