Palm Sunday-2020
Readings: John 12:12-19 Isaiah 50:4-9a Philippians 2:5-11 John 12:20-43 Hymns (from the Lutheran Service Book): 443 444 441
Fifth Sunday in Lent (2020)
Readings: Psalm 130:1-8 Ezekiel 37:1-14 Romans 8:1-11 John 11:1-45 Hymns 433 430 620
Fourth Sunday in Lent (2020)
Third Sunday in Lent (2020)
Jesus is the one who shows mercy, not to the proud, not to the angry, not to those who are satisfied. But He shows mercy to the thirsty. He knows what you need and at the font of your baptism He made a promise deeper than any marriage vow. A vow that continues so that death may not even part you from Him.
First Sunday in Lent (2020)
When you blame others or make excuses for your sins of thoughts, words or deeds, you are blaming God. This is why Jesus’ temptation is so wonderful. Jesus doesn’t deserve to be led out to the wilderness and to be deprived of food but he does it anyway because the Holy Spirit led him out there to succeed where we have failed.
Transfiguration of Our Lord (2020)
The Transfiguration tells us who is dying on the cross and who’s image you are being formed into and who it is that you eat in the Lord’s Supper.
Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany (2020)
Do you lust for that which God has not given you? You all have safe spaces. Places where you would claim no sins, no faults.
Purification of Mary and Presentation of Jesus (2020)
He who knew no sin became sin for us that we would be the righteousness of God. The crime scenes in your life whitewashed. Jesus was the sacrifice from Eden. The innocent lamb. And you and I and all who believe and are baptized are covered in his innocence.
Third Sunday After the Epiphany (2020)
Jesus will not withdraw from you to save himself. By going to the cross he was bringing us into his light. When he says this is body and this is my blood it is not to hurt you but to give you the holy spirit so you are more ready to withstand the attack of the devil and not fear to stand in opposition to this evil age.
Second Sunday After the Epiphany (2020)
It’s not that God doesn’t know the thoughts and motivations of your heart but in asking us and these first disciples he is doing two things. First he is asking not for his own knowledge but for us to learn to repent. Second he is asking so that we might proclaim who he is and what he has done.
Second Sunday After Christmas (2020)
When we don’t exactly understand God’s word, rejoice in being a student. Rejoice that Jesus has purified your ignorance by baptism. Rejoice that salvation and the assurance of our salvation does not depend on how good of a student we are but on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. That he was perfect. He earned your place in heaven.
Fourth Sunday in Advent (2019)
Perhaps part of the reason we are so willing to ask for signs from God is because we have a yearning to connect with God in real ways. In a world of uncertainty to have something certain. Something to grab onto, something, if you will to be the object of our faith. What sign would you ask for to tell you, everything is going to be alright?