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Stand UP! Pentecost 11C- August 25, 2019
A sermon for the people of Hope Lutheran Church in Riverside, CA. So, here is your greek for the week- if you read the gospel, the woman stood up and began praising God. The word for praise is doxazo- which more often means to think of, to suppose or consider, but…
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The Cost of Transfiguration is Change
Transfiguration Year C 2019. Riverside CA Hope Lutheran Church March 3, 2019 Are you here to be changed? I mean really actually changed? Transfiguration is defined as a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or…
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To love an addict
my addict is clean. they are healthy- right now. Yet in every addict I cross on the street, I see them again. I begin to weep inside and am always picking up the phone to make sure they are still clean. I am grateful beyond measure every day for this…
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Life, not death… (Nov 25 sermon Christ the King-Year B)
November 25, 2018 Hope Lutheran Church Riverside, CA Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 Rev 1:4b-8 …
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The widow’s good news… (Nov 18 Sermon- Pentecost 26 B)
November 18, 2018 Hope Lutheran Church Riverside, CA The end is coming. Finally. Oh, not the end from Daniel or the guy on the street corner shouting, I was…
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Some Gave All- and they shouldn’t have to…. (Nov 11 sermon Pentecost 25B)
November 11, 2018 Hope Lutheran Church Riverside, CA Mark 12:38-44 Welcome to the time of year in most churches when we talk at the table about impolite things, like caring for the immigrant, feeding the poor,…
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The Honeymoon is Over… Happy Anniversary. Reformation Sunday 2018
Reformation 2018 ~ Hope Lutheran Church ~ Riverside, CA Well, the honeymoon is over. A year ago we made a promise. A year ago I stood before Bishop Andy Taylor and spoke words of commitment and hope, of service and accountability. I waited 13 years of school and finding…
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Third Time’s a Charm Pentecost 22B
Pentecost 22B October 21, 2018 Hope Lutheran Church~~~~Riverside CA Mark 10:35-45 They say “third time’s a charm.” And yet, here we are with James and John and they don’t get it again. Our Gospel today begins with two of the church’s future saints treating the Son of Humanity like…
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From the Pastor’s Pen November ’18
Happy 502nd Anniversary, reforming church. What a good and blessed thing it is to be given a chance to be made new. I for one am grateful every day that I am not stuck as the same person I was the day before. The old me has a chance to…
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