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What’s in Your Treasure Chest?

New Day Sermon Pentecost 8 The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. (Matthew 13:44) What in the world would be compelling enough to make you give up everything … yes,…

Looking for Crosses

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL PEntecost 3 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18) I spoke about the image of the “cross” with our kiddos today in this morning’s children’s sermons. We looked for crosses in the sanctuary,…

Martyrdom Revisited

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL Lent 2 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, ‘Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?’ I said to him, ‘Sir, you are the one that knows.’ Then he said to me, ‘These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their…

Surprising Joy

email devotion all saints sunday If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. (Philippians 2:1-2) A couple of weeks ago I…

Lost and Found

Pentecost 17 Traditional Sermon Do you know a lost cause? By that, I don’t mean remembering a team like the 1962 New York Mets, who lost 3 out of every 4 baseball games they played that season. I’m not talking about a consideration of General George Armstrong Custer’s chances of winning the Battle of Little…

Labor

Email Devotion Pentecost 16 Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28) The breathing is so slow and slight that at times it in indiscernible. Effort is being exerted, but the tangible results of that effort and negligible. “Labored” breathing to be…

Joy … Always Joy

Email Devotion Pentecost 10 He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. (Ephesians 1:5-6) It was a joy and privilege to share worship with Pr. Robert Wegehoft at St.…