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How can we ‘bear fruit’?

Practice spiritual discipline and you will Bear Fruit Text: Luke 13:1-9; Fifth Sunday in Lent If we want to bear fruit, it helps to practice some spiritual discipline. First, our Gospel story offers some harsh imagery of followers who, Jesus implies, may have failed to bear fruit. It raises plenty of questions. (The Message’s version […]

Maundy Thursday command: Love and Serve

Maundy Thursday story gives us our job description 1Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2The devil had already put it into the heart […]

Love Like This!

Maundy Thursday: April 13, 2017 – Love one another… It sounds simple; but then Jesus says…”as I have loved you.” Sitting around that table, I can imagine the disciples, like you and me, nodding their heads. Of course! Show compassion, be nice to one another, forgive one another. Sure…we can do that! But wait… just […]

You strove with Satan…and you won

Sermon: March 5, 2017 –  In our Lutheran tradition of worship, the different pieces of our worship each week are connected by the themes in the scripture passages and the season of the church year. The scriptures we read are from the Revised Common Lectionary, which is a 3 year cycle of readings used by […]

When Reconciliation is All that matters

I really love this parable- for a lot of reasons. But one of the reasons I love it the most is because it has so many layers. Every time I spend time reading, studying and pondering it, I discover new insights and find new angles and perspectives…and then I think, “Jesus was so incredibly clever;