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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Jul 1, 20237 min read
God will provide.
After graduating college, I lived in Tokyo for a couple of years as a missionary with the ELCA. I got to live in a huge, exciting city,...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Jun 24, 20235 min read
Bird Watching
St. Louis is a wonderful place for watching birds: songbirds and migratory birds, sure, and with all the rivers around, there are also...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Jun 17, 20235 min read
Keep on moving!
Shake the dust from your feet. Easier said than done. I confess, sometimes it takes me a while to shake the dust from my feet, to let...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Jun 10, 20234 min read
A Call from God: Live Now
When Jesus says “Follow me,” it is not just a simple matter of obedience to do stuff the right way.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
May 6, 20235 min read
You know the Way
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. And “no one comes to the Father—meaning ‘God’—except through me.” How many times have you...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Apr 29, 20235 min read
The voice of the shepherd.
When do you hear the voice of someone you trust? What does their voice sound like in your mind or in your memory? How did you come to...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Apr 22, 20231 min read
Pastor Cheryl gets a break!
The kids on the Green Team (and their mentor, Eve Cooney) take over the sermon to discuss the ways they are trying to be better stewards...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Apr 15, 20235 min read
Christ’s peace is FOR YOU
You all get it. That’s why you’re here. It’s the Sunday after Easter, and typically, everyone put so much energy into celebrating Holy...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Apr 8, 20235 min read
Resurrection is our story.
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! This is our holy story of resurrection. We’ve been telling this story during all of...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Apr 6, 20233 min read
It is finished.
It is finished. The marathon runner collapses across the finish line, knees buckling beneath the weary weight of many miles. But there...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Apr 5, 20235 min read
The Command to Love
Jesus gives us what we need, and then a little bit more. On Maundy Thursday, this is when we remember that Jesus celebrated the Last...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Mar 25, 20234 min read
Can these bones live?
There’s a lot of love in this story about death and life. In much of John’s Gospel, Jesus can speak in a way that’s rather aloof, as if...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Mar 18, 20234 min read
seeking: who sinned?
It’s kinda sad that humans are so skilled at asking all the wrong questions. The story in John’s Gospel of the man born blind is a...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Mar 12, 20238 min read
Will You Give Me A Drink
This past Wednesday was International Women’s Day, a time to celebrate women around the world as they advocate and agitate and legislate...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Mar 5, 20235 min read
How do we begin again?
There is a science to awe. Not “aw” as in “aw shucks” or “aw that’s too bad,” but awe, as in wonder or reverence or admiration or...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Feb 26, 20237 min read
seeking: who will you listen to?
When Jesus was baptized, publicly affirmed by the voice of God, you might think that would be a kind of high point that would be a...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Feb 22, 20234 min read
Is this the fast that I choose?
Perhaps you have noticed the questions—during Lent, every week when we gather for worship on Sundays and on Wednesdays, there will be a...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Feb 19, 20235 min read
Welcome, Wonder
Perhaps you have noticed some interesting new words in the liturgy we’re using today, the words we use for worship. Most of these words...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Feb 5, 202310 min read
Repairing the Breach
WHAT ARE THE CHILDREN DOING? Today we heard a strange word in the reading from the Old Testament. The prophet Isaiah said that when you...
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Jan 29, 20236 min read
A Church With Purpose
A couple of weeks ago, our local newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, had a feature article with this title: “Revived for New...
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