Tag: grace
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Healing is Hard
On October 13th, 2019, I led worship and preached about healing during the evening Empowering Life service at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) near Gig Harbor. I’ve written before about my experiences there if you’d like to read more. For security reasons, I was not able to record the message from that service,…
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One Coin Found
When someone you knew in school writes a book, you can’t help but read it. So when my seminary classmate, Emmy Kegler, shared her publication date, “One Coin Found” went right into my Amazon cart. Her memoir/theological resource/bible study traveled with me last April to a conference where I read it during any free moment.…
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How Much God has Done – Message for Sunday June 23rd, 2019
How Much God has Done – Message for Sunday June 23rd, 2019Pastor Megan Filer Isaiah 65:1-9Psalm 22:19-28Galatians 3:23-29Luke 8:26-39 Display content from SoundCloud Click here to display content from SoundCloud. Learn more in SoundCloud’s privacy policy. Always display content from SoundCloud Open content directly You can find the half sheet of resources mentioned in the…
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Ask the Pastor – Worship Stuff Part 2 – Confession & Forgiveness
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 you’ve been asking, if you’ve been curious, if you’ve been wondering, this is…
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Empowering Life – Prison Ministry
I was recently asked to share my experience serving with Empowering Life, why I care about prison ministry, and what this ministry of St Mark Lutheran of the Narrows and our Synod means to me. I of course wrote way more than they needed, and so I thought I’d share it here. Empowering Life It’s…
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God Am I Hungry – Revisited
I have a hard time believing that it was five years ago, but five years ago I wrote a blog post titled “Holy Communion – God Am I Hungry”. And it was one of my favorite pieces of writing. That blog is no longer public, but over the last few weeks as we have been…
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Spirit-Filled – Festival of Homiletics 2018: Part 7
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. Filled with colleagues, with kindred spirits, with inspiration and wisdom, and with a…
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Hopes & Dreams Part 5 – Holy Breadcrumbs
As part of my process to become an ordained minister in the ELCA, in 2016 I was required to write an essay focusing on my hopes and dreams for the church, where I see God at work in the world, and what I believe about our incredible God. Over the next few weeks I’ll be…