Tag: god’s love
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God Love You! No Exceptions!
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Standing outside our church on my birthday, several members and I read aloud the shared banner, “God loves YOU! NO Exceptions!” “I am so happy and proud to see this at our church!” One member commented to me, asking about the process […]
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Ask the Pastor – Worship Stuff Part 2 – Confession & Forgiveness
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Have you ever wondered why we do what we do during worship? What’s up with the passing the peace? Why do we have a community confession? Maybe you’ve wondered if there’s more to the offering besides collecting gifts for the church. If […]
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“For I Was” – God’s Work Our Hands
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For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in ~Matthew 25:35 This weekend ELCA congregations across the country will be celebrating […]
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Spirit-Filled – Festival of Homiletics 2018: Part 7
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Start at part 1 of this series on experiences from the Festival of Homiletics 2018 here! I did not expect this week. I had forgotten what an intensive like this could be like. It brought me back to those Spirit-filled intensives at seminary. […]
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Kind of Morbid – Observing Good Friday
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For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. ~Romans 5:6 NRSV Good Friday is sort of a weird day in the church. Or at least it’s weird to me. It’s a bit morbid, gathering together […]
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Speaking to Us – Why We Support Deep Roots New Life
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This article was written for the Southwestern Washington Synod of the ELCA’s March Newsletter, I hope you enjoy it here, and I invite you to check out the newsletter from our synod’s website when it becomes available! Southwestern Washington has been my synod for […]
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When Words Fail
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Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy. Kyrie Eleison In the wake of last week’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, I found myself with out words. Still my heart struggles, still words seem to fail […]
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Beloved, Broken, Bearers
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I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be beloved, broken, bearers of God’s love. This wondering has come up for me because of the conference I attended last week, but also because of our upcoming education series.This coming Sunday […]
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#metoo – Lifting voices
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“Me too.” ~Hagar (Gen 21), Bilhah (Gen 30), Dinah (Gen 34), Tamar (Gen 38), Bathsheba (2 Sm 11), Tamar II (2 Sm 13), Unnamed Woman (Jgs 19-21), and countless more On October 15th, a saddening trend began on Twitter and Facebook. I […]
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The Church Begins – Discomfort & Cleanliness
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and he said to them, “You yourselves know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or to visit a Gentile; but God has shown me that I should not call anyone profane or unclean.” ~Acts 10:28 In the verse […]