February 11, 2024

St. Luke Lutheran Church February 11, 2024 Enews Hitting the Wall In virtually every worthy endeavor there is a wall that must be overcome.  It may be a wall that can only be overcome through endurance, it may be a wall that is overcome by brute force.  The book of Leviticus, and to a lesser…

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February 4, 2024

St. Luke Lutheran Church February 4, 2024 Enews A Stiff-Necked People  Exodus 32 I was a young child when I first heard the phrase, “Stiff-Necked People.”  I was confused for some time.  I remembered my grandfather waking from a nap complaining that his neck was stiff.  I remembered my mother complaining one morning that her…

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January 26, 2024

St. Luke Lutheran Church January 26, 2024 Enews Never was Heard a Discouraging Word- Exodus 15:24 When I read about the Israelite’s journey through the wilderness, I can’t help but here that old Western folk song, “Home on the Range.”  Dr. Brewster Higley wrote the lyrics as a poem in 1872 or 1873 titled, “My…

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January 20, 2024

St. Luke Lutheran Church January 20, 2024 Enews The Power of God’s Choice I’m writing this article on Wednesday, the day that we completed our reading of the book of Genesis if you have been reading through the Bible with me.  In chapter 49 of Genesis, Israel blesses his sons.  The twelve sons of Israel…

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January 13, 2024

St. Luke Lutheran Church January 13, 2024 Enews Through the Bible – Jacob’s All Nighter- Genesis 32:22-32 If you are reading through the Bible with the rest of us, we will have gone from creation to Jacob’s wrestling match with God by the end of the two weeks of readings.  The Bible contains many strange…

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January 6, 2024

St. Luke Lutheran Church January 7, 2024 Enews Merry Xmas: God Revealed in Forgiveness This is our last sermon in the short series in which we have examined Greek words that begin with the letter Chi (X).  We end the series looking at God revealed to us in forgiveness.  From this side of Christ’s resurrection, it is…

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December 31, 2023

St. Luke Lutheran Church December 31, 2023 Enews Merry Xmas:  Revealing God I am willing to bet that all of us have had the feeling, you are really hungry, but you have a craving for something.  You can put your finger on what you want, but you feel like you desperately need the thing you…

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December 24, 2023

St. Luke Lutheran Church December 24, 2023 Enews Merry Xmas: Christ In Us A friend of mine in college had an interesting poster above his bed in the dorm.  At the center of the poster was a small knight in armor.  The knight had a sword raise in one hand and a shield in blocking…

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December 16, 2023

St. Luke Lutheran Church December 16, 2023 Enews God Revealed: The Lord of Time We begin our short journey through the Chi’s (pronounced kai’s) of the New Testament.  Chi looks like an “X.”  In the Greek language it is the first letter in the title, Christ.  We are using the letter X to remind us…

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January 1, 2023

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