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Feb 21, 20216 min read
Driven Into the Wilderness -Mark 1:9-15
The red ink at the top of the exam stated simply: “You can do better than this. Come see me.” Now I was standing outside my professor’s...
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Feb 18, 20214 min read
Ash Wednesday - Matthew 6: 1–6, 16–21
It was in the middle of Lent when the coronavirus quarantine began last year. It’s been almost a year now that we’ve been meeting on...
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Feb 14, 20215 min read
The Guidebook of Goodbye - 2 Kings 2:1-14
I have a dear friend from college, whose father is dying. He was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer this summer, and recently...
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Feb 7, 20215 min read
Healed to Serve - Mark 1:29-39
Imagine being the person who always loves to play host. You love to have people over for dinner. You always have the best food and...
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Jan 31, 20215 min read
Jesus and the Every Day Demons - Mark:1:21-28
Every generation has its stories about the fight between good and evil: The Lone Ranger, Superman comics, the Star Wars movies, Harry...
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Jan 26, 20215 min read
God’s Calling: Jonah & Jesus, Mark 1:14-20
Today we heard two stories about callings. The first reading was about Jonah. The second was the story about the calling of the first...
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Jan 17, 20216 min read
Answering the Call - John 1:43-51, 1 Samuel 3:1-20
One Saturday morning when I was 8 years old, my dad called from down the hallway, “Julie, come here!” I came out of my room. “Listen!” ...
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Jan 10, 20215 min read
New Beginnings - Mark 1:1-11
0 One week in August 2017, I came home from Pennsylvania for my uncle’s funeral. It was the end of his earthly journey, but also a new...
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Jan 3, 20214 min read
Connected Again - Matthew2:1-12
About five years ago, my family vacationed near the Grand Canyon. We happened to be there at the same time as a national convention of...
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Dec 13, 20206 min read
The Incarnate Universe - Luke 1: 26-38. 46-55
This morning we celebrate the visitation of the angel Gabriel to Mary. In this time before Christmas we see a prime example from Mary of...
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Dec 6, 20205 min read
The Baker’s Dozen and the Questions of Advent
Today’s sermon begins with a children’s book about a legend of St. Nicolas. Sometimes the simplest message is the most profound. The...
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Nov 29, 20202 min read
What Are You Waiting For?
Children's Sermon - 11/29/2020 What is the worst place to be waiting? A stop light? The grocery check out? Covid testing? Here is my...
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Nov 25, 20202 min read
My Faith Story - Maragaret Byrne
My impact story truly comes from the impact stories of others, specially, Fred and Greg. I’ve been involved with centering prayer on the...
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Nov 25, 20201 min read
My Faith Story - Perry Hasson
I have been attending Saint Mathew’s Lutheran Church services since the first Sunday of Advent 2019. I was looking for a Christian church...
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Nov 22, 20206 min read
A King Who Cares - Matthew 25:31-46
This is a picture of me when I was 5 with our family pet goat, Bell. I still remember the day we got her. My dad took my brother and me...
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Nov 18, 20202 min read
My Faith Story - George Reider
Carol and I with four boys in tow arrived in Farmington in April,1975. On that first Sunday we attended St Matthew. The doors were...
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Nov 18, 20201 min read
My Faith Story - Fred Fenn
I would like to share the impact that the St. Matthew prayer life has had on me. Centering prayer is something I have been interested in...
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Nov 15, 20204 min read
Encourage One Another - Thessalonians 5:1-11
“Encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.” When Ann was in early high school, Ms Jones invited her to be...
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Nov 11, 20201 min read
My Faith Story - Anne Fenn
St. Matthew isn't afraid of tough subjects. When the George Floyd story dominated the news, as well as other tragic and violent deaths...
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Nov 11, 20202 min read
My faith story - Greg Boyd
Hi – I’m Greg. When I moved to CT in 2015, I could not have perceived the number of upheavals that lay ahead. I moved all the way from...
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