Second Sunday of Advent, Pastor Lois Pallmeyer
Dear Friends in Christ, God’s grace and peace be with you. Amen “Comfort, O Comfort my people,” says your God. “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to them that their sentence has been served[i].” I...
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Today’s scripture readings: Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11; Psalm 126; John 1:6-8, 19-28 Each Friday evening for the past several months, PBS Newshour has ended its show with an “In Memoriam” segment that pays...
View ArticleFourth Sunday in Advent, Pastor Bradley E. Schmeling
Luke 1:26-38 Dearly Beloved, I grew up in Cincinnati, a town so Catholic that my friends often asked if Lutherans believed in Jesus. And back in those days, in our Missouri Synod conservative...
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Today’s scripture readings: Jeremiah 33:14-16; Psalm 25:1-10; Luke 21:25-36 A recent study from the Pew Research Center found that a growing number of U.S. adults who do not already have children are...
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Luke 3:1-6 + Advent 2 + December 5, 2021 + Gloria Dei Lutheran Church + Pastor Bradley E. Schmeling This was infrastructure week. Here at Gloria Dei, most of the decorative material that hides the...
View ArticleFourth Sunday of Advent, Pastor Bradley E. Schmeling
Luke 1:39-55 I want to come back to the snakes. Last week, we heard John the Baptist call his listeners a “brood of vipers.” In the children’s sermon, I brought some rubber snakes that I used to hide...
View ArticleFirst Sunday of Advent, November 27, 2022, Pastor Lois Pallmeyer
Texts: Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122, Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44 Dear Friends in Christ, God’s grace and peace be with you. Amen. I’m one of those people who can’t read the end of the book until I...
View ArticleSecond Sunday of Advent, Pastor Bradley E. Schmeling
Matthew 3:1-12 The charge, “You brood of vipers,” is really what the United States and Iran threw back at each other this past week at the World Cup. The United States posted a revised image of the...
View ArticleThird Sunday of Advent, Pastor Javen Swanson
Today’s scripture readings: Isaiah 35:1-10; Psalm 146:5-10; James 5:7-10; Matthew 11:2-11 Michael Gerson was a gifted writer, a presidential speechwriter for George W. Bush and, later, a regular...
View ArticleFourth Sunday of Advent, Pastor Bradley E. Schmeling
Matthew 2:18-25 One of our guilty pleasures in these darker December days has been watching the Netflix series with Meghan Markle the Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, their tell-all...
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