Keep Awake
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
- 6 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
- 5 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
- Oct 15
- 8 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 8
- 6 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 1
- 8 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 24
- 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 17
- 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 10
- 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 3
- 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 27
- 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 13
- 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
- Jul 31
- 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 9
- 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 3
- 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 26
- 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
- May 7
- 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 2
- 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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