Author Archive: Pastor Bob
getting out the Word
the 2nd sunday in lent the PRAYER … O God, by the passion of your blessed Son you made an instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of life. Grant us so to glory in the cross…
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the second sunday in lent
Mark 8. 31-38A cross happens … when real love and a real world collide! You just never know when inspiration will strike. Or where it’ll come from. For the past month-or-so, a group of us has been getting together on…
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getting out the Word
the 1st sunday in lent the PRAYER … Holy God, heavenly Father, in the waters of the flood you saved the chosen, and in the wilderness of temptation you protected your Son from sin. Renew us in the gift of…
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the first sunday in lent
Reflecting on the JourneyLove never waits, it goes! The story – our story – began, seventy years ago. When, after the war, a group of Lutherans from the Hill Country came to the Basin. Within a few years, a pastor…
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ash wednesday
Matthew 6. 1-6, 16-21It’s not the alms or the prayers or the fasting that make lent. It’s the love – god’s love! It’s been circulating around cyberspace, for a couple of years now. You might have seen it. It’s a…
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the transfiguration of our lord
Mark 9. 2-9Transfiguration is when we see, when we hear, only Jesus! Each year, every year, seven weeks before Easter, we celebrate the same thing. The Transfiguration of Our Lord. We tell – retell – the old, old story. Last…
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the fifth sunday after epiphany
Mark 1. 29-39We are loved … and everything else will take care of itself! “Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.” Matthew, chapter seven, verse…
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getting out the Word
the 4th sunday after epiphany the PRAYER … Compassionate God, you gather the whole universe into your radiant presence and continually reveal your Son as our Savior. Bring wholeness to all that is broken and speak truth to us in…
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the fourth sunday after epiphany
Small Catechism, the Table of DutiesWe’re all servants! Of god! And of each other! Looking back, I think it began sometime after the first Gulf War. 1991. 1992. When the troops were returning home. We remembered how the country treated…
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