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Empire Always Strikes Back

This Sunday we will be taking a big turn of the page out of the Book of Genesis and into the Book of Exodus. Stuff’s about to really heat up. Which is a serous understatement! This week we will looking at a portion of the story of Israel’s exodus out of Egypt. The story is too big and too multifaceted to ever be covered all at once, so we will be taking a peak into it and how we still see elements…

The Way Out is Through

This Sunday we continue journeying through the story, taking less of a leap than we did last week. Last week we were introduced to Abram (later Abraham), and this week we jump to the story of his great-grandsons, most notably Joseph. It’s a long story, probably the longest in all of the Scriptures (depending on how you define it), and it is rich! So rich that Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a famous Broadway musical based on it, and it follows…

Look to the Stars

We last week we left off with Adam and Eve having eaten of the “forbidden fruit”  and what that might mean in terms of the human condition. This week we’ll take a big leap, as we look at Abram (later known is Abraham) and his journey. It’s a long and complicated one, and it but we will be honing in on just a small, and I think very human, part of Abram’s story. It’s a big, scary out world there,…

To Judge or Not To Judge

We kick off our first season in the Narrative Lectionary, which is a lectionary out of Luther Seminary that works through the Bible narratively between September and June. So this Sunday we begin with one of the Creation narratives, and particularly that pesky piece of fruit Adam and Eve decided to partake of. This story is rich with meaning, and has endless possibilities as to what it could be about, but one thing is for sure: With a culture as…

Welcome Pastor Paul Baudhuin!

SCRIPTURE: Luke 24:45-53 (NRSVUE) 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah[a] is[b] to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses[c] of these things. 49 And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with…

Interim

SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 3: 5-6 &13-18CONTEMPORARY READING: For the Interim Time by John O’Donohue

Sweet Corn Sunday

SCRIPTURE: John 6: 51-58 (NRSVUE) 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” 52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 So Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you…

One Little Word: John’s Mystical Jesus

SCRIPTURE: John 6:35, 41-51 Jesus explained to them: “I am the bread of life. Anyone who comes to me will never be hungry again, and anyone who believes in me will never again be thirsty… The Judeans then began to grumble about him because he had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They would say things like, “Isn’t this Jesus, Joseph’s son? Don’t we know both his father and his mother? How can he now say,…

John 6:24-35

SCRIPTURE: John 6:24-35 (CEB) 24 When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus. 25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” 26 Jesus replied, “I assure you that you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate all the food you wanted. 27 Don’t work…

Ephesians 3:14-21

SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 3:14-21 (NRSVUE) 14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,[a] 15 from whom every family[b] in heaven and on earth takes its name. 16 I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit 17 and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. 18 I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the…