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Revelation 14:6-7 {Prayer} I want you to imagine a time with me. If you want or need to close your eyes to do so, then feel free, just don’t fall asleep on me. I want you to imagine that you are living in a time of economic hardship with a high unemployment rate. It’s…
Genesis 4:1-15 {Prayer} The birth of a child is something truly special, especially if it’s your first child. Sometime before Faith was born, my brother-in-law was trying to describe to me what it would be like when she was born. The thing is, he couldn’t really put it into words. There is really nothing…
Ezekiel 37:1-14 {Prayer} Each and every time you take a breath, your diaphragm is working. As you inhale, your diaphragm contracts and moves downward so that the space in your chest cavity increases. As the lungs expand, air is pulled in, and with the help of a fancy protein called a hemoglobin, oxygen goes into…
Ruth 1:1-22 {Prayer} Our Old Testament reading this morning is from the book of Ruth. When you hear that, you think the main subject of the book is who? Ruth. In our Lutheran Study Bible, in the introduction pages of the book under the title of “Blessings for Readers”, it says this: The Book…
Romans 8:31-39 {Prayer} A couple of weeks ago I raised the question of why do we watch the same movie over and over again. The answer I gave was that we watch that movie over and over again because we know it delivers. Our favorite scene turns out the way it always has. We…
Luke 16:19-31 {Prayer} I want to share a poem for you written by Will Allen Dromgoole entitled, “The Bridge Builder.” An old man going a lone highway, Came, at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and deep and wide. Through which was flowing a sullen tide The old man crossed in…
Luke 16:1-15 {Prayer} Kids, I want to ask you something as I begin. Do you know what a “come to Jesus” meeting is? … Okay, for those of you who know what it is, let me ask you this … have you ever had a “come to Jesus” meeting? … If you have, there…
Luke 15:1-10 {Prayer} I want you to think of your favorite movie. I want to you to think of that movie you have seen countless times, that movie where you know exactly what is going to happen next, that movie where you can even say the actor’s or actress’ line before they do. Got…
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 {Prayer} Back in the day, I loved to read the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books. As you go through the book, you got to choose, you got to decide which the direction the story was going to go. And the thing with those books, if you didn’t like the decision you made…
Luke 14:1-14 {Prayer} One of Jessica’s favorite pass times is people watching. This was especially true back when we were in college and before we had the responsibility of looking after, watching over, and keeping track of our own kids. Back in college at Concordia in Chicago, I specifically remember one time where…