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Written by Pastor Peg
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Tuesday, 14 July 2009 20:02 |
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At the beginning of June we met after worship to discuss and direct the Board of Ministers regarding our worship services in the fall. Before we started, though, we had two questions to answer:
Why do I come to worship?
How do I hope to experience God in worship?
So, as you read those questions, what do you think? And is "worship" a noun or a verb for you? Reach back for those parts of grammar that you didn't think made any differance when you were in 4th grade (noun: word for a person, place, or thing; verb: word for an action, occurrence or state of being) and you'll find that worship can be both a noun and a verb.
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Written by Pastor Peg
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Friday, 01 May 2009 00:00 |
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The fourth Sunday of Easter every year is called "Good Shepherd Sunday". Every single year, churches throughout the world hear lessons about Jesus as the Good Shepherd and sing songs, listen to sermons and respond with prayers about the Good Shepherd. Last year, it happened that Good Shepherd Sunday also fell on the exact Sunday we were celebrating our 50th anniversary as Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd. It was a Good Shepherd bonanza! Well, with all this business about the Shepherd, what's it like for us being the sheep?
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Written by Pastor Peg
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Wednesday, 01 April 2009 00:00 |
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A joke that's been floating ariund for a few years has to do with the Lutheran method of evangelism. Wanting to be biblically based in all matters, it seems that many of us use the final verse of the gospel of Mark as our guide to telling others about the good news of Jesus Christ Risen:
"So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid." (Mark 16:8)
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Time To Give Up Chocolate? |
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Written by Pastor Peg
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Monday, 02 March 2009 00:00 |
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For those of you who grew up in a church, Lent may have been a time when you gave up chocolate - all the better to enjoy the chocolate Easter bunny in your basket when it was over! Lent was about giving something up, a discipline, and sometimes an exercise in just how strong-willed you could be.
Lent can be like that. It can be about giving up the things we love and think we can't live without. For some of us, what we end up proving to ourselves after the 6 weeks of the season is that it's true! We really can't live without it. And so, we either give up on fasting from it - there's little guilt in that! - or count the Sundays as "little Easters" and indulge. We admire the ones who are able to stick with a fast and wish we could be so determined.
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