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 17
- 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 10
- 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 27
- 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 20
- 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 13
- 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 6
- 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 30
- 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 23
- 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 9
- 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 2
- 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 25
- 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 18
- 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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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Jun 11
- 4 min
A Call from God: Live Now
When Jesus says “Follow me,” it is not just a simple matter of obedience to do stuff the right way.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- May 7
- 5 min
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 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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