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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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Nov 13, 20225 min read


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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Nov 5, 20226 min read


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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Oct 29, 20224 min read


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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Oct 15, 20228 min read


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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Oct 8, 20226 min read


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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Oct 1, 20228 min read


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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Sep 24, 20229 min read


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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Sep 17, 20226 min read


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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Sep 10, 20224 min read


Labor Day
But we’re not people without hope. We’re not disconnected from the earth.
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Sep 3, 20227 min read


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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Aug 27, 20225 min read


Neurospicy
What’s it like to be diagnosed as human?
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Aug 21, 20228 min read


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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Aug 13, 20227 min read


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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Jul 31, 20227 min read


Samaritan
Loving the neighbor is a concept that is in no way unique to Christians...
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Jul 9, 20229 min read


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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Jul 3, 20226 min read


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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Jun 26, 20228 min read


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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Jun 19, 20227 min read


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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Jun 12, 20228 min read


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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Jun 4, 20226 min read
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