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Lenten Devotional

The Israelites were promised a land flowing with milk and honey. The land would be good and fertile. A more than suitable place for their home. One day, Joshua was blessed to lead the children of Israel into this Promised Land.Jesus, leads us to the Promised Land as well. This isn’t a physical location here … Read more

Sermon: 5th Sunday in Lent – Mark 10:32-45

Mark 10:32-45 Whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.  For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many If we cannot make sense of these … Read more

Confirmation Thought

Recently, the catechesis students looked over the rite of Confirmation. Take a look at the words used at Confirmation (page 272 in the hymnal) and in Baptism (page 268 in the hymnal). Do any of them look similar?

Lenten Devotional

“Man ate from a living tree and death came. Man eats from the fruit of a dead tree, the cross, and life comes.” -Pastor Will Weedon Romans 6:23 states, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Sin and death ultimately entered … Read more

One Year Later

It’s hard to think about what I was doing a year ago, March 11, 2020. That was the day WHO officially declared Covid 19 a pandemic. I was determining the menu for our child’s 1st birthday party. I was debating what to do for cake. I failed three times at making cupcakes and was leaning … Read more

Confirmation Thought

The Confirmation students talked about if we can trust the New Testament eye witnesses. If the writers of the New Testament were liars, many could refute the claims at the time of speaking and writing. They would also be giving up their lives for a lie. Seems like they were pretty certain in what they … Read more

Lenten Devotional

Jesus was baptized for our sake so that we may be connected to Him in our baptism. We notice Satan didn’t leave Jesus alone after His baptism. Satan doesn’t leave us alone after our baptism either. We can still be tempted, sin, and have terrible things happen to us. Yet, God gives us wonderful gifts … Read more

Devotion: Encouragement from Psalm 16

Psalm 16 comes up in our lectionary on Easter Day. Also noteworthy is that St. Peter quotes it in Acts 2, telling the Jews that though they put Jesus to death, God would not allow his Holy One to be bound by death. We know that Jesus’ resurrection is a resurrection promised to all his … Read more