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Tempted – Just like Jesus

Jesus walks with us when we are tempted Listen to Pastor Wong’s sermon here: Text: Luke 4:1-13. You don’t have to go to the Sonoran desert to feel like you’re in a wilderness. The cares of this life are wilderness enough! The good news: Jesus was tempted just like you are! You can count on […]

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 […]

The woman at the well

Sermon: March 19, 2017 –  I want to invite you into the life and world of the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. A woman who, I suspect, saw herself as someone of little value. First of all, she’s at the well in the heat of mid-day. Traditionally, the women of a village traveled to the […]

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;