Author Archive: Pastor Bob
Pastor Bob
August 5, 2020
the 9th sunday after pentecost the PRAYER. . . Glorious God, your generosity waters the world with goodness, and you cover creation with abundance. Awaken in us a hunger for the food that satisfies both body and spirit, and with…
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Pastor Bob
August 2, 2020
Romans 9. 1-5The church is created, chosen, and called to lovejust like Jesus. Sometimes, it’s an awkward thing … being a pastor of the E.L.C.A. Being a pastor in this particular denomination … talking about racism. At the beginning of…
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Pastor Bob
July 26, 2020
Romans 8. 26-39We were made for each other! Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? You may recognize that as the title of a book from back in the early Eighties. It was written by a conservative rabbi. Harold…
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Pastor Bob
July 19, 2020
Reflecting on the JourneyThe church is called to love not some, but all. It’s hard to believe it’s been forty-three years! Forty-three years – today – since the last big flood hit my hometown! A foot of rain in ten…
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Pastor Bob
July 15, 2020
the 6th sunday after pentecost the PRAYER. . . Almighty God, we thank you for planting in us the seed of your word. By your Holy Spirit help us to receive it with joy, live according to it, and grow…
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Pastor Bob
July 12, 2020
Romans 8. 1-11The reason for faith isn’t heaven or hell, but love! Him the Almighty PowerHurld headlong flaming from th’ Ethereal SkieWith hideous ruine and combustion downTo bottomless perdition, there to dwellIn Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,Who durst defie th’…
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Pastor Bob
July 9, 2020
the 5th sunday after pentecost the PRAYER. . . You are great, O God, and greatly to be praised. You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. Grant that we may believe…
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Pastor Bob
July 5, 2020
Romans 6. 12-23We aren’t “saved” because we always do what’s right and never do anything wrong … We’re saved because god loves us! It was 1960 and I was in kindergarten. It was, also, the year I made my television…
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Pastor Bob
July 1, 2020
the 4th sunday after pentecost the PRAYER. . . O God, you direct our lives by your grace, and your words of justice and mercy reshape the world. Mold us into a people who welcome your word and serve one another,…
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Pastor Bob
June 28, 2020
Romans 6. 12-23It’s not the confessing that changes lives; it’s the loving! Way back in the good old days – about three or four months ago, now – we’d begin each Sunday morning together, pretty much the way we did,…
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