AuthorAvery Carr

Vicar, 2016-2017
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R. Avery Carr was called to serve as pastor of First & Trinity Lutheran Churches in Iron River, MI.

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Is Christ Our King?

    Traditional Sermon,     Christ The King Sunday In 1928, Elie Wiesel was born in Transylvania. Fifteen years later he and his family would be deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz where his mother and younger sister would perish. He would later study in Paris and become a journalist where he was encouraged…

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Things Are Not Always What They Appear

Traditional Sermon, Pentecost 23 So things are not always what they appear.  Sometimes due to our own preconceptions and prejudices we can completely misread the world around us. For example, at one point in history, because of humanities narrow perspective from our limited knowledge, we believed that the world was flat and that if you traveled…

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Who is the Real You?

New Day Sermon Pentecost 19 We all have our stories and the truth of our lives lie more in what cannot be seen than what can.  The important part of our stories are not the troubled relationships but rather the reconciliation, the forgiveness, or the lack thereof…

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Is The Bar Set Too High?

Traditional Sermon, Pentecost 16 So typically, I am not a huge fan of reality TV programs. Some of them feel to me as though they are constantly just trying to stir up drama and conflict between people and I guess I just feel as though there is enough drama and conflict in the world without…

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Do You Believe in Prayer?

New Day Sermon Pentecost 10 Before listening to the sermon be sure to watch this comical and unorthodox prayer by Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own. Understanding the loving relationship we have with God a large part of prayer.  As we walk the road of life, we do not walk alone.  May God help…

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Can You Hear Me Now?

Traditional Sermon, Pentecost 9 Shema Israel Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad… “Hear O’ Israel, the Lord is our God; the Lord is one.” This is the first line of the prayer known as the Shema, that Pastor Pretz mentioned in his sermon last week.  The Shema is recited or chanted twice daily (morning & night) by…