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The Well is Deep: April 2015

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The Well is Deep. Monday, April 27, 2015. What the Good Shepherd [Of Life] Does. Sermon preached April 26, 2015, Fourth Sunday of Easter at Shepherd of Life Lutheran Church in Lake Elsinore, CA. Today is what’s commonly referred to as “Good Shepherd” Sunday. Maybe you already figured that out. Jesus names himself as the Good Shepherd in the Gospel reading. Psalm 23, “The Lord is My Shepherd,” was read earlier. Sheep appear to be pretty lousy creatures and we, as humans, are given likeness to them. The Go...

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The Well is Deep: August 2015

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The Well is Deep. Monday, August 24, 2015. Lord's Prayer: Part Five "Forgive Us Our Sins As We Forgive Those Who Sin Against Us". Sermon preached Sunday, August 23, 2015, Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, at Shepherd of Life Lutheran Church in Lake Elsinore, CA. We’re almost there! We’ve taken apart the beloved Lord’s Prayer and have attempted to put it back together in a more meaningful, rich way. 8220;Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be your name.” Remember? 8221; This question pops up when that one per...

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The Well is Deep: July 2015

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The Well is Deep. Friday, July 31, 2015. Lord's Prayer: Part One "Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed Be Your Name". Sermon preached July 26, 2015, Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, at Shepherd of Life Lutheran Church in Lake Elsinore, CA. And so we begin—where else? 8212;at the beginning. “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.”. What does this relationship look like in reality? What does this tell us? 8221; phenomena. But it manifests itself in other ways, too. In short, this child knows that thei...Would...

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The Well is Deep: December 2014

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The Well is Deep. Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Sermon preached December 14th, the Third Sunday of Advent, at Shepherd of Life Lutheran Church in Lake Elsinore, CA. You might think we’re repeating ourselves here. Last Sunday we also heard about John. We heard about John the baptizer, appearing in the wilderness, clothed in camel’s hair, eating locusts and wild honey and crying out for people to repent and to “Prepare the way of the Lord! 8221; So this morning, you might think, “Oh! A witness who suffers ...

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The Well is Deep: Lord's Prayer: Part Four "Give Us Today Our Daily Bread"

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The Well is Deep. Monday, August 17, 2015. Lord's Prayer: Part Four "Give Us Today Our Daily Bread". Sermon preached Sunday, August 16, 2015, Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, at Shepherd of Life Lutheran Church in Lake Elsinore, CA. Of course, we do. Mean regular old bread when we pray, the kind that comes steaming out of the oven…but we are also talking about much more. We can get hung up and if it means wheat bread, or white bread, or whole grain, or sourdough or even gluten-free. When we pray that God ...

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The Well is Deep: May 2015

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The Well is Deep. Monday, May 18, 2015. That was the title and topic of one of the lectures I attended this past week while I was at the Festival of Homiletics. As I said last week, “homiletics” is just a fancy church word for preaching and this event was five days filled with worship, preaching and lectures from passionate and faithful church leaders of all stripes and denominations. Person’s sermon and lecture. “Good new,” the words read, “Christianity is Pregnant! The text this morning—I bet you...

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The Well is Deep: February 2015

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The Well is Deep. Thursday, February 19, 2015. Remembering to be Dust. I've been on vacation the past week. I arrived back into Lake Elsinore on Monday evening and there was a LOT to do before Shepherd of Life's Ash Wednesday service. One of the things I had asked the congregation to do was to think about the coming weeks. They were handed a white card and asked to put down something they wanted to focus on during Lent. Some people wrote confessions. Some people asked for God's help. Dust that God breath...

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The Well is Deep: Working on Welcome

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The Well is Deep. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Sermon preached July 5, 2015, Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, at Shepherd of Life Lutheran Church in Lake Elsinore, CA. Being welcomed can be really hard. Or maybe I should say that putting yourself in a position to be. Welcomed can be really hard. There is no doubt that many times it’s easy. If a friend invites us over for dinner, it’s not hard to say yes! And with family—forget it! There are many times, though, when being the welcomed. Mindy Kaling, pg. 130).

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The Well is Deep: October 2014

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The Well is Deep. Thursday, October 30, 2014. God is the Only Constant. Sermon preached October 26th, 2014, Reformation Sunday, at Shepherd of Life Lutheran Church in Lake Elsinore, CA. Today is Reformation Sunday. Each year, this special Sunday falls on or before October 31. Because on October 31. In 1517, Martin Luther did something that would not only change his own life in a profound way, but also change the way Christians since have understood God and their relationship with God. We will remember wh...