What does God want from you?

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And what does God give to you at times of loss in your life?

 

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and kasiastock, for the photo.

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Of Kings and Kingdoms

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What influences are  being brought to bear in your life? What kingdoms are pressing upon you?

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Pastor Mark preaches on one part of the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy Kingdom come…”

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_(I know…the media file should have read, “They Kingdom come…”  …but it is the same sermon)

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and iancowe, for the photo. 

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Jesus didn’t need a bucket. And neither do we.

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Pastor Mark was away this weekend. And because he was in town, Pastor Russ Lackey, who is Senior Campus Pastor at Grand View University, Des Moines, Iowa, graciously presided over our worship service for the 9th Sunday after Pentecost.

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Pastor Lackey announces to us the Good News that because Jesus didn’t need a bucket to draw the Living Water that we really need… we don’t need one, either. 

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Listen to > Why we no longer need a bucket.

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Thank you, Pastor Lackey.

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And thanks to flickr and Trond Gjerde, for the photo.

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Just who IS your neighbor? And are up to helping them when you are able?

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Pastor Mark preaches on the 10th Chapter of Luke and the parable of “The Good Samaritan”.

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 Listen > The Good Samaritan 

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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Thanks also, to flickr and clarkvr, for the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Penultimate Concerns

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“St. Paul talked about it so that’s why we talk about it.”

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What does circumcision represent?

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Sermon for the 7th Sunday after Pentecost

Listen > Circumcision or uncircumcision

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and godserve, for the photo.

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Some interesting facts about the 56 signers of The Declaration of Independence…and then a sermon on Christian freedom.

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The Founders of our country were fighting for a particular kind of freedom. Different than the kind of freedom that our Lord has won for us, but the same in the respect that both types of freedom are for something…and not for our willfulness.

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Pastor Mark’s sermon explains how Christ’s freedom, won for us, is from something…and yet is for something:

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 Listen to > Freedom

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and libertyclick, for the photo.

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Justification by Faith

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This same sermon could be preached in any Catholic church or Baptist church. Or any Reformed church, or Pentecostal church. It could even be preached in other Lutheran churches.

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All that it would take is for a preacher to read and understand the Galatian letter and Paul’s intent to bring the Galatian churches back onto the rails of faith in Christ, alone, for our justification before a righteous God who demands from us nothing short of perfection.

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Listen 

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Thank you, Pastor Mark Anderson.

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And thanks to flickr and Amsterdam Asp, for the photo.

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The Biblical Christian Paradigm

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There are, basically, two ways to look at the Christian life.

One would be more accurately described as “Christianism”.

The other is…well…listen in and see for yourself:

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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Photo: flickr and squirlaraptor

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‘Feeding the Poor’

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This sermon is NOT about feeding the poor:

 

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 click > Are you doing enough?  

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_( note – This sermon was delivered some years ago. The numbers cited may no longer be accurate, but were at the time the sermon was given)

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Thanks, Pastor Mark.

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Thanks also to flickr and blcfcafe, for the photo.

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Jesus and the Centurion

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The power and authority of the Word of God to do what it will do…for sinners. That same power and authority and action is at work in Will’s  Baptism…and in yours and mine.

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Listen to Pastor Mark’s sermon on Jesus, the centurion, and the healed  slave:

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and malcompymm, for the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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