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Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 6th Sunday after Easter (John 15: 12)

Send us Fan Mail John 15:9-17 “As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. “I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. “This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this:...

Send us Fan Mail 1 John 5:1-6 CSB Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of him. This is how we know that we love God’s children: when we love God and obey his commands. For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden, because everyone who has been born of God conquers...

Send us Fan Mail Psalm 98 1Sing a new song to the Lord, who has done marvelous things,   whose right hand and holy arm have won the victory. 2O Lord, you have made known your victory,   you have revealed your righteousness in the sight of the nations. 3You remember your steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel;   all the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God. 4Shout with...

Send us Fan Mail Acts 10:44-48 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came down on all those who heard the message. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were amazed because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles. For they heard them speaking in tongues and declaring the greatness of God. Then Peter responded, “Can anyone withhold wate...

Send us Fan Mail O God, you have prepared for those who love you joys beyond understanding. Pour into our hearts such love for you that, loving you above all things, we may obtain your promises, which exceed all we can desire; through Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 5th Sunday of Easter (John 15:4)

Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to be a branch vs. the Vine? How can we get bad trees to bear good fruit? John 15:1-8 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes, and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I i...

Send us Fan Mail We love love, but do we really know what love is? What is love in light of Christ? 1 John 4:7-21 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so th...

Send us Fan Mail This is the happy part of a very somber psalm. It appears to be the reaction to all the prophecies at the beginning of this prayer. Psalm 22:25-31  25From you comes my praise in the great assembly;   I will perform my vows in the sight of those who fear the Lord.  26The poor shall eat and be satisfied,   Let those who seek the Lord give praise! May your hearts live forever!  27All...

Send us Fan Mail Here we have Phillip being sent to a man who is 4x an outsider. So often we think ourselves to be Phillip, needing to be sent out to find this type of man. But I wonder, how often are we the man in the chariot with the open Bible, needing help? Acts 8:26-40 An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip: “Get up and go south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is the d...

Send us Fan Mail O God, you give us your Son as the vine apart from whom we cannot live. Nourish our life in his resurrection, that we may bear the fruit of love and know the fullness of your joy, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 4th Sunday of Easter/Good Shepherd Sunday (Acts 4:13)

Send us Fan Mail This Shepherd is really, REALLY good... John 10:11-18 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away—and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep. I am th...

Send us Fan Mail Sacrificial love in the time of Covid-19. Hmmm... I wonder. Do you see it around you? In what way? 1 John 3:16-24 We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in wor...

Send us Fan Mail We all know it, but do we really? Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.     He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters;     he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths     for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley,     I fear no evil; for you are with me;     your rod and your staff—     they comfort me. You p...

Send us Fan Mail How has the work of the Spirit emboldened you in Christ to share the salvation that comes in his name? Acts 4:5-13  The next day, their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high-priestly family. After they had Peter and John stand before them, they began to question them: “By what power...

Send us Fan Mail O Lord Christ, good shepherd of the sheep, you seek the lost and guide us into your fold. Feed us, and we shall be satisfied; heal us, and we shall be whole. Make us one with you, for you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 3rd Sunday of Easter (Luke 24:39)

Send us Fan Mail Here we have another appearance of the risen Christ. What do we do with this never-dying, ever-living, Jesus? Luke 24:36b-48 Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet;...

Send us Fan Mail What do we do with all of this discussion about sin? Abiding in Christ? Seems weird. 1 John 3:1-7 See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he...

Send us Fan Mail This Psalm is a bedtime Psalm. How might we use it when darkness seems to have fallen upon us? Psalm 4 To the leader: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my right!     You gave me room when I was in distress.     Be gracious to me, and hear my prayer. How long, you people, shall my honor suffer shame?     How long will you love vain words,...

Send us Fan Mail Here we have Peter preaching after the healing of a beggar outside the temple. Calling people to repentance based around the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. Acts 3:12-19 When Peter saw it, he addressed the people, “You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? The God of Abraham, the God of...

Send us Fan Mail Holy and righteous God, you are the author of life, and you adopt us to be your children. Fill us with your words of life, that we may live as witnesses to the resurrection of your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 2nd Sunday of Easter (John 20:25b)