the day of pentecost
John 15.26-27, 14.4b-15The Spirit comes to love … just like Jesus! I’m not sure if I should start this sermon with an apology or a warning. I just know I should start it out with something. I don’t think it’s…
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Author Archive: Pastor Bob
getting out the Word
the 7th sunday of easter the PRAYER … Gracious and glorious God, you have chosen us as your own, and by the powerful name of Christ you protect us from evil. By your Spirit transform us and your beloved world,…
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the seventh sunday of easter
Reflecting on the JourneyWe aren’t what we do; but what god makes us! My best guesstimate is that it was six – maybe seven – years ago. When our youngest was swimming with COM Aquatics. One day, after practice, she…
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getting out the Word
the 6th sunday of easter the PRAYER … O God, you have prepared for those who love you joys beyond understanding. Pour into our hearts such love for you that, loving you above all things, we may obtain your promises,…
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the sixth sunday of easter
John 15. 9-17The Father loves; Jesus loves; we love. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t know it well enough.” That’s another quote I ran into, during the pandemic. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t know it…
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getting out the Word
the 5th sunday of easter the PRAYER … O God, you give us your Son as the vine apart from whom we cannot live. Nourish our life in his resurrection, that we may bear the fruit of love and know…
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the fifth sunday of easter
John 15. 1-8Pruning isn’t to get rid of branches; it’s to insure the harvest! It started out, about fourteen years ago, as an article in theLutheran – our denominational magazine. But it, soon, morphed into something more. Becoming another brick…
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getting out the Word
the sunday of the passion the PRAYER … Everlasting God, in your endless love for the human race you sent our Lord Jesus Christ to take on our nature and to suffer death on the cross. In your mercy enable…
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the fourth sunday of easter
John 10. 11-18God doesn’t love in spite of sins. God, just, loves! It was seven years ago, almost to the day, that we set up this page on Facebook. @MidlandLutheranChurch. And for a – then – middle-aged male, the learning…
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the third sunday of easter
Reflecting on the JourneyThe destination of faith is love! By the time you watch this, Sherice and I should be back in Midland. But, for now, as the crow flies, we’re fifteen hundred miles away. The Rhododendron Garden, Point Defiance…
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