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  • A Prayer from Babel

    A Prayer from Babel

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    From the start I will admit that this devotion has been shaped by this past Sunday’s Crosspoints adult education class, which tackled the topic of “Exile” using the lens of a short video from The Bible Project. (A plug for this delightful site where two guys, some deep faith, and lots of adept keyboard strikes…

  • Easter 7

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    New Day Sermon Easter 7 We yearn to find unity in our world and in our communities, but as often as not we come up short. As Jesus concluded his high priestly prayer in St. John’s Gospel, he reminded the disciples (and us) that unity is something God gifts to us, since the first days…

  • Let the Triune God Resolve Divisions

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    Pal Pusztai
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    New Day Sermon Pentecost 3 Divisions can cause all kinds of problems. In Mark 3, Jesus says unity is threatened by divisions. A House divided is destined to fall. One can look at fear being a major underlying reason for divisions to surface. One way to resolve divisions is to turn to the Triune God…

  • A Friendly Invitation

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    In the fall of 1980, second year seminarians who were returning for classes at what was then the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, were typically pretty excited.  Because our completion of the first year preaching course, Exegesis to Proclamation, meant that we could now supply preach on Sunday mornings.  In 1980, this part of the…

  • What’s in a Name?

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    I ask that people make no reference to my name; let them call themselves Christians, not Lutherans. What is Luther? After all, the teaching is not mine. Neither was I crucified for anyone. (Martin Luther, 1522 treatise) The Ethiopian eunuch … I mean really … how often do you get to say those words in…

  • Let’s Gather to Hear the Voice of the Good Shepherd

    Let’s Gather to Hear the Voice of the Good Shepherd

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    Pal Pusztai
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    Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. [1 Colossians 1:3] A few years ago, I was walking to my Jeep Compass which was sitting in a parking lot in Maryland where I was living at the time. As I approached my car, I found on the…

  • CHildren of God … One and All

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    New Day Sermon Fourth Sunday of Easter Do you struggle with all the division and fighting in the world?  Come listen to the Good Shepherd, and his word hope about all ofhis children.

  • What Goes Up, Must Come Down

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    What goes up, must come down.  The NASA booster rocket that lifts a satellite into space then returns to earth … the pop fly a baseball player lofts into the sky which lands back in a player’s mitt … the daredevil high diver at a traveling circus who climbs that tall thin ladder only to then…

  • Is Christ Our King?

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    Avery Carr
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        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…