Prepare the way of the Lord. It starts with a bulldozer, whose name is John the Baptist.
When John the Baptizer appears in the wilderness, baptizing for the repentance of sins, he is preparing the way of the Lord. He’s not...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Nov 27, 20225 min read
Keep Awake
What are the children doing? Today I brought with me some ways to measure time. · Sand timer—if this was bigger, it might be...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Nov 20, 20226 min read
What Holds Us Together?
Water is powerful, but it’s everywhere, so it’s easy to take water for granted. Which sounds to me kinda like Jesus...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Nov 13, 20225 min read
What Came First? God.
You ever find yourself reading along in the Bible and suddenly you notice—HEY, I KNOW THOSE WORDS. THOSE ARE SONG LYRICS. This happened...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Oct 15, 20228 min read
How to Persist in Faith
Where do you get the energy to keep going? Who else has had to put up with day after day of bad news?
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Oct 8, 20226 min read
Healing in Community
This Gospel lesson makes me wonder. Who is worthy of healing? Is it the people who suffer the most pain, or whose suffering is most...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Oct 1, 20228 min read
Creation 3
The question isn’t whether you have enough faith; the question is: do you have a relationship of trust with a loving God?
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Sep 24, 20229 min read
Creation 2
What are the children doing? I want to do an experiment—can you all help me? I have all these boingy things, and I’m going to give...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Sep 17, 20226 min read
Creation
In this Season of Creation, we are taking these few weeks to give thanks for all that God has created...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Sep 10, 20224 min read
The Universe
God created all that is, all the life we know here on earth, and also the planets and stars and moons and galaxies far beyond this earth.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Sep 3, 20227 min read
Labor Day
But we’re not people without hope. We’re not disconnected from the earth.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Aug 27, 20225 min read
God's work. Our hands.
But Jesus came to heal our brokenness. When he shows up at dinner, this isn’t relaxing time: this is a teaching moment.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Aug 21, 20228 min read
Neurospicy
What’s it like to be diagnosed as human?
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Aug 13, 20227 min read
Cloud of witness
But here’s the thing, and in fact, this is why we’re here today: Jesus didn’t come to teach us how to escape the world and all its mess; he
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Jul 31, 20227 min read
Boundless!
Children’s Sermon: Do you know what “boundless” means? Perhaps you have played a big outdoor game in a field—the first thing to decide...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Jul 9, 20229 min read
Samaritan
Loving the neighbor is a concept that is in no way unique to Christians...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Jul 3, 20226 min read
Power
When I first read this part of the Bible about stepping on snakes and scorpions and not getting hurt, I was amazed. During the summers...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Jun 26, 20228 min read
3rd Sunday after Pentecost
What the children are doing: We just heard a really strange story from the Bible about a prophet named Elijah, and being a prophet is an...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
May 7, 20226 min read
Hell? No!
Perhaps you also have heard that phrase—if you’re going through hell, keep going. In other words, don’t stop where you are.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Apr 2, 20229 min read
Holy Communion
Mary of Bethany gives to Jesus an extravagant, expensive gift—pouring out fragrant oil upon Jesus’s feet and wiping his feet with her...
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