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God Awaiting Our Response: To Bring Good News

Sermon delivered by Pastor Lori Eickmann. There is good news for the poor and release for the captive; the blind see and the oppressed are free. Christ is the fulfillment of God’s promise of life. We, as the body of Christ, help bring that promise into the world today. How are you gifted to bear the good news to those around you and to those you will never even meet?

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Randy Pabst. Confirmation is a “confirming of faith.” But even more, it is the “Affirmation of the Baptismal Promises” made by parents at Baptism. Today, the class of 2010 Affirms their faith in this public setting in response to their parents faith AND in response to God’s gracious love in Jesus Christ. We celebrate this faith together as the church and pray that such faith will grow and sustain these young people throughout their lives!

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Randy Pabst. For the most part, it is still the man who is expected to ask the woman for her “hand” in marriage. And, just as the woman may wait for the man to ask her, he then must wait for her response. It can be a difficult time in the life of the relationship. In that same way, God has invited us into full relationship (with God and each other). God must then wait for our response? Today, through the imagery of a wedding we explore how God activel ...

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Lori Eickmann. In baptism God frees us from sin and death by joining us to the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus. But what does it mean to die and rise with Christ? Are you willing to re-commit to God’s vision for the world? Get ready—because today we renew our baptismal covenant with God.

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Sermon delivered by Tom Hoegel, Tori Nyberg, David Emmert.

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Randy Pabst. We hear it proclaimed by the angels to the shepherds in the Christmas story, “Peace on earth and good will toward all.” But, what is this “peace” really all about. Could it be that the “peace” God is offering is not so much the “absence of conflict” as it is the “peace” that comes from whole relationship—to God and to each other! Christmas it God offering a “peace” like to other—if we can just accept it!

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Randy Pabst. The world has finished its celebrations for the season. The presents have been opened—some even put away, or returned, or whatever we do with those gifts. Many of the decorations are put away and the lights turned off. It’s time to move ahead to a new year! Yet we would be remiss if we did not remember the real wonder of Christmas yet one more time. Today we truly celebrate the birth of Jesus and what that means for us every day!

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Lori Eickmann. “Waiting” doesn’t sound like something active or particularly joyful—until you know the God of whom the prophet Zephaniah wrote, “Sing aloud…shout…rejoice and exult will all your heart! The LORD has taken away the judgments against you!” This is the same God who came to us at Christmas as a baby in a manger, the One who baptizes “with the Holy Spirit and fire,” and whose advent we await by living our lives in faith and servi ...

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Joseph Chiu. A LOVE like no other! That, of course is what Christmas is truly all about—God coming to us in a child to save us by offer his life for us! A yes, God prepared the way for Jesus coming—as both lessons affirm this morning. How does God prepare the way for God’s love to enter your life? Today we explore the ways God is still “preparing the way” as we wait for God to act anew in our lives.

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Randy Pabst.

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Randy Pabst. Waiting is not the something this culture likes. In most places Christmas is here! Yet, God reminds us that we are called to “wait” for God and God’s time. For the ancient Israelites that waiting was born out of a promise that God would send a Messiah. More than anything else that promise engendered a HOPE like no other. Today we explore how our hope in God is born of a promise—a promise fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Lori Eickmann. We hold that the Bible (The Book of faith) is the norm for our faith and life. But what does that mean? Is it the rule book for life? Is it the guide for every situation and circumstance? Or, is it more? Today we look again to scripture as the revelation of God in our lives, as the first Language of Faith, and are challenged in our “fluency” to share this incredible life giving story!

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Lori Eickmann. What enslaves you? The Bible implies that we are all enslaved but challenges us to choose the only slavery that makes us free—Jesus himself. Today, as we come near the end of our emphasis on the Book of Faith we see anew the prefect freedom offered to us all in and through Jesus Christ. It is not so much a conundrum as it is an opportunity for life well beyond the slaveries that too often dominate our lives.

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Lori Eickmann. Martin Luther was clear in pointing out that we are both “Sinner” and “Saint” at the same time. Certainly, we have been known to vacillate sometimes doing better than others. But I wonder sometimes if it is in the tension of the two that we find the most helpful truth: WE NEED GOD! Today, as we remember those who have gone before us in faith over the past year it does us well to be reminded that our need for God is key to who we are and ...

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Randy Pabst.

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Randy Pabst. Ever look up what your name means? Did that influence your self image? Names are important aren’t they?!? For ancient peoples, just knowing a name carried an important power in your relationship to the person or thing whose name you know. For us, God telling us God’s name through Moses means something about our relationship to God AND God’s relationship to us. Today we explore the implications and truth revealed in THE name that is above a ...

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Joseph Chiu. It has been said that this is the era of following. Everything wants us to follow from political causes and campaigns—to products; from controversial issues—to athletic teams; I could go on and on. Today, however, we are faced with the ultimate call: who will be our God and how will we pursue our relationship to the god / God? And lest we forget, following means something profound and important for our lives.

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Randy Pabst. We all like the idea of “reform” to one degree or another—it’s “change” we can’t stand! Reformation Sunday is a profound reminder that we are the descendants of “reformers” whose “protest” of what the Church had become changed everything even unto today. On this Re-Formation Sunday we look again at the ultimate “reform” and change that comes only from God and challenges us to let God change us into God’s own image!

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Randy Pabst. Over the years there has been a great deal of emphasis on Biblical Literacy. It is good to have a working knowledge of scripture. However, if the Bible is our “first language” of faith how “fluent” are we in that language—that is how well can we speak and share this “language of faith?” When the risen Jesus tells the disciples they are to be his witnesses he is directing them to share the faith based on who he is and what he did. In ...

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Sermon delivered by Pastor Randy Pabst. How do we who a Christian of the Lutheran Tradition understand the Bible? Today we focus on the Bible as the “norm of our faith.” It is something much more that just the facts about God. It is something much more that just the “rules for life.” It is even more than the story of God. It is the divinely inspired living WORD of God revealed, interpreted, and lived out through Jesus Christ. It not only reveals God—it reveals who we are. ...

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