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The Holy Spirit is everywhere, creating, equipping, and leading people into new life, freedom, and salvation. Sometimes we get so fixated on what is going wrong that we miss out on what God is doing right under our noses. Jesus says that sometimes what God is doing is so new that we need to find new ways to understand it and share it with others. New wine needs new wineskins, he says.  In this pod...

April 19th, 2020 The 2nd Sunday of Easter In today's message, we hear from Jesus both a word of peace and instructions for how we can be instruments of the peace of God. Readings and Bible references : John 20:18-31 John 14-17 1 John 1:8-9 Psalms 130 and 103 Joel 2:28-32 Hebrews 12:1 Romans 16:25-27 website for Faith Lutheran Sunday School Resources Worship Resources (YouTube) Dean Smith--Liv...

A sermon for Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020. God of grace, you sent your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, to bring life and immortality to light. We give you thanks because by his death Jesus destroyed the power of death and by his resurrection has opened the kingdom of heaven to all who believe. Make us certain that because he lives we shall live also, and that neither death nor life, nor things pres...

In uncertain and anxious times, the Bible invites us to put our hope in the God who created us, who loves us, and who has a purpose for our lives. Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020 Bible Readings : John 12:12-19 Romans 5:1-5 Philippians 4:11-14 Sunday School materials : Transcript of today's podcast : Worship Resources : Support the show

A message for the 5th Sunday in Lent, March 29th, 2020. We believe in "the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting" (Apostles' Creed). But what does that mean? From a vision of dry bones to the dream of a angel trumpet on the last day, the Bible points us to the hope that Jesus came to give us eternal life: a daily dying a...

4th Sunday in Lent In a time of pandemics, slumping markets, social distancing, and long lines at Costco, the encouraging words of the 23rd Psalm offer comfort, healing, and hope. Written Manuscript here Bible Readings and References: Psalm 23 1 Samuel 16:1-7 Ezekiel 34:11-16 John 10:11 Leviticus 23:3; 25:1-19; 26:33-35 Hebrews 13:20-21 Worship Resources here Sunday School Materials here Support t...

John 4:4-30, 39-42 New International Version (NIV) 4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. 7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8...

The spiral of sin. The healing of confession. A 15 minute sermon based on the story of Eve and Adam in the garden (Genesis 3) and a prayer of King David (Psalm 32). Sin starts with disobedience, but spirals as we tend to try to cover it up, blame others, or minimize the problem. Sin is killing us. Confession is good for the soul. We acknowledge our disobedience, and we open ourselves to receive wh...