June 2013
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Devotion: For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free
In the sermon on Sunday (6/30), I lifted up the similarities between civic freedom and our freedom in Christ. We are citizens of the United States and live with a great deal of freedom, but there are boundaries on our freedom so that my freedom doesn’t result in injustice for you. As Christians, we are also citizens…
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Devotion: Hearers & Doers
As I write this devotion, I am almost finished with preparations for the Sawdust & Sandals trip to New Jersey this week (see our blog), I finished two days with four members of our congregation at the Metropolitan Washington D.C. Synod Assembly, and I am preparing to lead worship on Sunday and meet with our Sunday…
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Devotion: God’s Vision
vi·sion /ˈviZHən/Noun The faculty or state of being able to see.Verb Imagine. Vision is something we talk a lot about in churches and business. Even though this idea of “vision” is used often, I find that there ends up being a fair amount of vapor in the conversation. We say that we must follow our “vision…
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Devotion: Why do we resist change?
There is a saying that “the only one who likes change is a wet baby.” We all know that change is part of life … an inevitable and necessary part of life. Children get older. Trees grow. Cars and computers eventually get outdated and need to be replaced. Science makes new discoveries. Medicine advances. Why then…
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Devotion: Sharing?
We know that being a Christian is not just about winning our own salvation, and, once that’s “done” – checked off the list – then we can go on about our lives, occasionally going to church or doing something good and charitable so that, at the end of our lives, people can say that we…
Epicurious Lutheran 