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Sermons@TLC: 01/01/2005 - 02/01/2005
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A weekly posting of the prior weekend's sermon from Trinity Lutheran Church in Ishpeming, MI. Monday, January 31, 2005. Texts: I Corinthians 1:18-31; Micah 6:1-8. Paul wrote his first letter to the Corinthians around the year 54 A.D. Only a little more than twenty years had passed since Jesus’ crucifixion and ascension. And the Corinthian church itself was only about three years old. And as we look at our own community of faith, we know that Trinity has a fairly representative slice of the lives of the c...
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Sermons@TLC: 12/01/2004 - 01/01/2005
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A weekly posting of the prior weekend's sermon from Trinity Lutheran Church in Ishpeming, MI. Monday, December 27, 2004. First Sunday after Christmas. But then these words meet us today: When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the wise men. Look at what’s happened in Ukraine with their elections. Victor Yucshenko, one of th...
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Sermons@TLC: 01/01/2006 - 02/01/2006
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A weekly posting of the prior weekend's sermon from Trinity Lutheran Church in Ishpeming, MI. Monday, January 16, 2006. Evangelism in a Nutshell. Jesus finds Philip and tells him, Follow me. And that’s exactly what Philip does. Philip finds his friend Nathanael and tells him, We’ve found the one we’ve been looking for, the one we know about from the law and the prophets. It’s Jesus of Nazareth! And Philip simply says, Come and see. And that’s exactly what Nathanael does. Do you hear what happened? This c...
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Sermons@TLC: 02/01/2004 - 03/01/2004
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A weekly posting of the prior weekend's sermon from Trinity Lutheran Church in Ishpeming, MI. Wednesday, February 25, 2004. Text: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21. Jesus assumes that everyone is practicing the spiritual disciplines of giving offering, praying, and fasting. But he uses examples that clearly illustrate the. Intention in doing these acts. The hypocrites giving alms wore the mask of faithfulness in order to hide their desire to be praised for their act. When the real answer is, I feel terrible. How ofte...
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Sermons@TLC: 04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004
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A weekly posting of the prior weekend's sermon from Trinity Lutheran Church in Ishpeming, MI. Monday, April 26, 2004. Third Sunday of Easter. Texts: Acts 9:1-20; Revelation 5:11-14. This morning I would like each one of us to take a moment and consider this question seriously: Who is the last person you’d want to have walk through those doors? Think about it. Who would it be? Would it be someone from your past who hurt you or whom you hurt? Would it be someone you see often but who you just don’t like?
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Sermons@TLC: 05/01/2005 - 06/01/2005
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A weekly posting of the prior weekend's sermon from Trinity Lutheran Church in Ishpeming, MI. Tuesday, May 31, 2005. Texts: Matthew 7:21-29; Romans 1:15-16, 3:22b-31; Deuteronomy 11:18-21, 26-28. Ron’s Wooden Boat Class. One followed the plan exactly and used the right wood. The other followed the plan exactly and used rotten wood. A storm blows in. The first builder was wise; the second was foolish. Jesus knew a thing or two about building a house he was a carpenter. Both men heard the words of Jesus.
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Sermons@TLC: 03/01/2005 - 04/01/2005
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A weekly posting of the prior weekend's sermon from Trinity Lutheran Church in Ishpeming, MI. Monday, March 28, 2005. What Do You Expect? That he would be victorious, that he would finally make everything right. Yet her hopes and dreams had been dashed and defeated exposed and laid bare by Jesus’ brutal crucifixion. All she expected to see was, quite frankly, the corpse of Jesus. In her mind, the best case scenario was seeing his body. But it wasn’t there. This is when we need to freeze-frame the scene a...
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Sermons@TLC: 04/01/2005 - 05/01/2005
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A weekly posting of the prior weekend's sermon from Trinity Lutheran Church in Ishpeming, MI. Monday, April 25, 2005. We Are Living Stones Built Into a Spiritual House. Texts: Acts 7:55-60; Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16; 1 Peter 2:2-10; John 14:1-14. Karen and I went to San Francisco on vacation a couple weeks ago. We had a great time with our good friends as we took in the sights and the sounds and the tastes of the Bay Area. I don’t know who this gentleman is and, most likely, I will never see him again. But...
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Sermons@TLC: 01/01/2004 - 02/01/2004
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A weekly posting of the prior weekend's sermon from Trinity Lutheran Church in Ishpeming, MI. Tuesday, January 27, 2004. Where Mission Meets Motivation. Third Sunday after the Epiphany. Texts: Luke 4:14-21; Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a. It is very common, ordinary, everyday. There is nothing strange and things go just as they should. He wound up leaving the last place while being praised by everyone. Well,. Jesus proclaims, Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.
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Sermons@TLC: 03/01/2006 - 04/01/2006
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A weekly posting of the prior weekend's sermon from Trinity Lutheran Church in Ishpeming, MI. Monday, March 13, 2006. We live in a culture that tries its hardest to deny death. Oh, it’s not that we don’t know that death is a reality. But we do quite often try to deny death. Maybe, on an individual level, some of us accept it. But we would be hard pressed to say that our culture doesn’t deny death. We get uncomfortable on Ash Wednesday when we hear that we are dust and to dust we shall return. I will ...
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