Sermons

Mark 5. 21-43The kingdom of god is made upnot of the privileged, but of the needy. This is where – this is when – things start getting difficult. Taking the bible word-for-word, letter-for-letter. Most of the time, it’s not all…
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reflecting on the journeyThe “body” – like the “members” – is saved by grace, for christ’s sake, through faith! Over the years, you’ve heard me mention “The Four Spiritual Laws.” A sermon, now and again. Sunday school. Study groups. They’re…
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Mark 4. 26-34If it is nothing else, faith is love! Being loved and loving! “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” I’d been looking for another, but stumbled across this quote, instead. “Life is really simple,…
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Mark 3. 20-35It’s not the crowd that makes Jesus crazy … but just the opposite! As the theory goes, Mark’s gospel was the first written. Matthew and Luke came later. But each used Mark’s as the foundation, as the framework,…
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topical: the Wall of SeparationSeparation protects the integrity of both of state and religion. Like I said at the start of worship, this morning, the sermon will be different from my average, from my run-of-the-mill. Instead of focusing on the…
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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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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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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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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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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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