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Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.
Whenever we read texts like Luke 21, and then we look at the world around us, it is awfully tempting to think Jesus was predicting the very times we are living in. In fact, there are many famous religious leaders who insist on interpreting scripture this way.…
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Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.
“Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled….” (Luke 6:20-21). What kind of nonsense is that? I wonder how many of the poor in Jesus’ day, or today, feel blessed? I…
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Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.
On the last Sunday of October, every year, we celebrate the anniversary of the Reformation. The anniversary remembers October 31, 1517, when Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. At the time, Luther posted…
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Today is a special day because, today our four confirmands who will be affirming their baptismal vows next week will be sharing with us their Statements of Faith.
Thomas Delzeit Statement of Faith
“My journey with Christ started twenty months ago in February 2015. The Boy Scout Troop at Salem was having it’s annual ‘scout Sunday’ in which…
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Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.
Misty Copeland was born in September 1982 right here in the Kansas City area. As a young African American girl, her parents moved to California where they struggled to make ends meet. There was a time that Misty, her parents and four siblings all lived in a…
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Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.
Jill and I love taking care of our grandkids. We are always encouraging our son and daughter-in-law to go out so we can take care of the kids. It is so much fun to spoil them and then send them home! But you know, it seems like every time we are with our…
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Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.
The journey had been long and the teachings Jesus has been offering were hard. Over the past several weeks as they had been traveling around, Jesus had talked with his followers about the cost of being a disciple. That is, to be a disciple, one must be willing…
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Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.
Today’s gospel story is unique when it comes to all the other parables that Jesus told. First of all, this is the only parable in which one of the characters actually has a name. Secondly, this is the only parable in which the whole story doesn’t take…
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Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.
“No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth” (Luke 16:13). Many of us grew up remembering this text with a slightly different…
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Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.
So often we speak about God’s presence with us as a blessing, and it is a blessing, but what we often forget is that God promises not only to be present with us in those times of joy, or in those times when we call upon God, but God is also in those moments…