One thing have I desired of the Lord... that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life...Psalm 27:4
God is in the midst of the city…God will help it when the morning dawns. Psalm 46
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I wish that when it came to our stuck places, we could just say to ourselves: open up, rise, live. But it’s just not that easy. And God seems to know this. God seems to understand that very often it’s an outside force that pries us open to new life.
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Place Finders: Readings 10:04 Sermon 15:00 Prayers 30:02
Hymns: 4:02 Be Though My Vision 26:45 Open The Eyes Of My Heart 32:26 Jesus Is A Rock In A Weary Land 34:34 All Who Hunger Gather Gladly
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This is also where we sometimes get stuck: discipleship in the Bible doesn’t look like Jesus’ friends in the classroom achieving and achieving and learning and learning until they are filled up with good grades and ready to graduate. It doesn’t look like a proficiency exam. In the Bible, it actually looks like the opposite: discipleship looks like people unlearning everything and falling apart.
Place Finders: Readings 14:28 Sermon 23:16 Prayers 39:24
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What Jesus offers is not the immediate miracles of food and plenty, but a longer path of discipleship. How will we respond?
Place Finders: Readings 13:46 Sermon 19:58 Prayers 38:06
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…be filled with the Spirit, 19as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, 20giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.—- From Ephesians 5:19-20
Place Finders: Readings 11:35 Sermon 20:13 Prayers 38:00
Whoever eats of this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. —- From John 6:51
Place Finders: Readings 7:57 Sermon 18:06 Prayers 34:56
Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. John 6:24-35
Place Finders: Readings 9:19 Sermon 20:08 Prayers 37:28
This week: the baptism that never happened and other tales of water and washing
Place Finders: Readings 10:12 Sermon 15:33 Prayers 33:21
Question: Where is your deserted place, away from the frantic pace?
Place Finders: Welcome 0:22 Readings 11:17 Sermon 16:41 Prayers 33:07
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‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.’ Mark 6:31
Place Finders: Readings 12:33 Sermon Dialogue 18:00 Prayers 46:01
Sermon Notes: For more reading on why multiple moral viewpoints are helpful to absorb Covid, read Fareed Zakaria’s A New Key to Covid Success, Not States but Societies. And for the importance of the exhale, listen to the whole interview of Christine Runyan with Krista Tippett, What’s Happening in our Nervous Systems? Such helpful perspective.
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Jesus left that place, and came to his hometown… Mark 6:1
Place Finders: Readings 11:22 Sermon 15:15 Prayers 33:23
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…Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live. Mark 5:23
Place Finders: Readings 13:28 Sermon 20:20 Prayers 37:41
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…And: "I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
-2 Corinthians 6:18
Place Finders: Readings 12:18 Dialogue Sermon 17:14 Prayers 38:06
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…the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how - from Mark 4:27
Place Finders: Readings 11:58 Sermon 17:59 Prayers 33:07
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For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. -Romans 8:14
Place Finders: Readings 10:14 Sermon 17:06 Prayers 34:46
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The Holy Spirit = God in the present tense, here and now.
Place Finders: Readings 11:58 Sermon 20:12 Prayers 36:40
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The forgiven person becomes the forgiving person. The healed person becomes the healing person. And the loved person becomes the loving person.
Place Finders: Readings 11:40 Sermon 17:39 Prayers 35:47
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“I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.” -John 15:11
Place Finders: Readings 12:35 Sermon 17:28 Prayers 32:13
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“I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit...” -John 15:5
Place Finders: Readings 9:38 Sermon 17:22 Prayers 34:35
Our guest pastor for today’s service is Wendell Brown, a friendly and frequent presence in the pews and the pulpit of Bethel Lutheran Church.
Place Finders: Readings 9:50 Sermon 15:41 Prayers 35:29
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