News
Making Sense of God when Our World Doesn’t
This is our pastor's newsletter for November 2018. In our grief, we sigh, … [Read More...]
Our Annual German Dinner is Now Here!
Our annual German Dinner is here! When: Saturday, October 20. Time: 4:00 to 7:00 … [Read More...]
Donna Kind-Gappa’s Memorial Service
Donna Kind Gappa's Memorial service will be held at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church … [Read More...]
Sermons
All Saints: Tobit 3:7-8, 7:10-12; Revelation 7:9-17; Matthew 22:23-29: Who’s Doing the Counting?
All the counting in Scripture. On its first page, the words, “In the beginning” ring out, … [More...]
Isaiah 66:1-2: Reformation, God Working Through Our Human Failures
A monk at Wittenberg, nails a document on a church door. Written in Latin, he desires to … [More...]
Ecclesiastes 5:10-20, Luke 12:13-21: Enjoy All in Christ
In the realm of wealth, we listen today to an expert. The teacher is Solomon, the … [More...]
Articles
Making Sense of God when Our World Doesn’t
This is our pastor's newsletter for November 2018. In our grief, we sigh, “Why, Lord?” Such words formed in my mouth when Dean Webb died, with Sandy, his wife, a short time later. Today, as I write this article, I still am grappling with losing them both. Though I am a pastor, God sends down no privileged doorway into His private deliberations. So, I can’t answer this question of … [More...]
A Lesson on Grieving
With two deaths within a week, a lesson like this made sense. For when someone you know and love dies, you suffer an enormous sense of loss. It is like an amputation. Initially, there's a sharp pain. Eventually, there's healing—but there's always a loss. Grief is the expression of this loss, which someone can express in several ways. Many people, when faced with a sudden death of one they … [More...]
John: Lesson 9: The Food of God’s Kingdom (John 6:25 – 71)
Jesus is back in Galilee with another Passover soon approaching. He crossed over the Sea of Galilee and a crowd follows Him there. Hungry, Jesus took five loaves and seven fish and multiplied them to feed a crowd of 5,000 men, plus women and children. Both Jesus and His disciples leave and the crowd follows him the next day. The crowd catches up with them, and they dialogue with several … [More...]
John: Lesson 8: Jesus Feeds a Crowd to … (John 6:1 – 24)
In John 2, Jesus went to Jerusalem for Passover (John 2:24, 4:43-44). Now we find almost a year has elapsed and Jesus is back in Galilee with another Passover soon approaching. This shows us John leaves out a lot, including the more important points we need (John 20:31). Jesus Feeds a Crowd Read John 6:1-4 “the other side of the Sea of Galilee”: “the other side” was the predominately … [More...]
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