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Aug 29, 20225 min read

Ancient Dinner Parties & Middle School Lunches - Luke 14: 1, 7-14

In the Gospel lesson today Jesus is at a dinner party and then tells a parable about a dinner party. Dinner party etiquette was a big...

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Aug 23, 20227 min read

The Sacred Sabbath - Luke 13:10-17

There’s a story about an aging woodsman and his young apprentice having an all-day wood chopping contest. The apprentice was a strong...

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Aug 8, 20226 min read

Mindfulness: Alert Without Fear - Luke 12:32-40

One morning last spring I was walking out of the parsonage. I closed the door, without paying much attention to my surroundings. I...

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Aug 1, 20226 min read

Liberation from Spiritual Clutter - Luke 12:13-21

There’s nothing like reality TV shows to help us understand Jesus’ parables. The first one that comes to mind is “Storage Wars” - have...

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Jul 26, 20225 min read

Prayer: The Way to Grow in Relationship with God - Luke 11:1-13

Humanity, in general, has a broken relationship with God. I don’t need to explain to you how deeply in need of healing we are. Sin is...

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Jul 19, 20227 min read

Guest preacher The Rev. Dr. Lisa Dahill - Luke 10:38-42, Colossians 1:15-28

Have everyone take a pinecone, rock, leaf, some object that attracts you … So good to be with you! From last Sunday’s Good Samaritan...

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Jul 11, 20227 min read

Listening & Understanding Your Neighbor - Luke 10:25-37

The Parable of the Good Samaritan is one of the most famous parables in the Bible. It’s only in Luke’s Gospel and it comes up in the...

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Jul 5, 20227 min read

What Were the Seventy Evangelizing About? - Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

My senior year in college at Valparaiso University, I lived in an off-campus apartment. One Saturday morning, a local pastor knocked on...

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Jun 28, 20227 min read

I Will Follow You Lord, But . . . - Luke 9:51-62

Have you ever heard the Shel Silverstein poem “I Can’t Go To School Today”? It’s a little long so I won’t read the entire thing, but it...

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Jun 21, 20227 min read

Spirits and Demons - Luke 8:26-39

There’s a funny comic I saw around Christmastime of baby Jesus in the manager surrounded by animals. All the animals say something nice...

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Jun 7, 20224 min read

From Disciples to Apostles - Acts 2 & John 14

Today is Pentecost. It’s the day we celebrate when the disciples became apostles, when those who learn became those who are sent out....

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Jun 1, 20225 min read

Jesus' Prayer for Oneness - John 17:20-26

Jesus prayed the night before he died for oneness. Not just for his disciples, but for all his followers who would come after. Oneness...

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May 18, 20227 min read

Love Transforms the World - John 13:31-55 & Revelation 21:1-6

This Easter season we’ve been reading from the book of Revelation as our first lesson, and if you attended adult forum last week you...

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May 9, 20226 min read

Our Good Shepherd - John 10:22-30

There’s a funny video of a boy who helps a sheep stuck in a ditch. Maybe you’ve seen it on YouTube. The boy struggles to free the...

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Apr 25, 20225 min read

Doubt That Grows Our Faith - John 20:19-31

In his book Faith and Doubt Pastor John Ortberg tells the story of a girl named Agnes. He writes: “From the time she was a young girl,...

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Apr 18, 20226 min read

Why Do You Look for the Living Among the Dead? Luke 24:1-12

There’s a story about a man who lost his keys one night. It was dark out and he was out searching for them underneath a streetlight. A...

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Apr 18, 20225 min read

Tearing Apart What Separates Us - John 13:1-17, 31b-35

There’s a story about a brother and a sister reunified after 30 years of being separated by the Berlin Wall. The sister Sigrid married...

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Apr 5, 20226 min read

Giving Your All to Jesus - John 12:1-8

At the center of this Gospel passage is Mary of Bethany. She is the sister of Martha and Lazarus. You may remember her from the Mary...

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Apr 1, 20223 min read

About Things that are Lost and Found

* Today’s gospel: about things that are “lost - & found” 1 lost sheep, and a shepherd who leaves the 99 to find the one. 1 lost coin, and...

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Mar 22, 20226 min read

God's Patience for an Unfruitful Tree - Luke 13:1-9 & Isaiah 55:1-12

An internet search reveals there are currently five major wars ongoing in the world. There is of course the war in Ukraine in which...

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