Deuteronomy 8:1-10 {Prayer} When everything is going along great, it’s easy to just keep on going and act as if nothing could possibly go wrong. Listen to this story I found as I was working on this sermon. Among the thrilling stories told in connection with the search of gold in the Klondike, in the…
Revelation 5:1-14 {Prayer} When you hear of heaven, what do you think of? Clouds, chubby little cherub angels flying around with cute bow and arrows? Maybe brilliant colors far richer than anything found on earth? Where do we get these ideas of what heaven will be like? For most people, their ideas come…
Matthew 25:1-13 {Prayer} As we draw closer to the end of the church year, you might have noticed that our readings take a turn toward the end times, to that “Day of the Lord” as Amos put it in our Old Testament reading. Well, you all know how my mind likes to wander at…
{Prayer} To refresh our memories, I want to read our sermon text again from 1 John 3. “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not…
Psalm 46 {Prayer} I’m a fan of storms, a huge fan of storms. I was really enjoying the ones we had this past week as they produced a great light show with some good rumbling thunder. It’s fun and relaxing at the same time to just sit in our sunroom when theirs a storm and…
Matthew 22:15-22 {Prayer} Ever feel like the world is out to get you? Like no matter how hard you try, you find yourself on the bottom, you find yourself beat up and tired? No matter how hard you try to get ahead in life, bam, the car breaks down or a storm damages your…
{Prayer} Listen to these opening words of our Old Testament lesson again from Isaiah 25. “On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples. A banquet of aged wine – the best of meats and the finest of wines.” I don’t know about you, but I…
{Prayer} Our LWML theme this morning is all about fruit and the production of fruit. Different kinds of fruit are more readily available at different times of the year. To know what fruit is really in season locally, all you have to do is drive by the Schwartz orchard sign on the way to Centralia.…
{Prayer} “There’s too many men, too many peoplemaking too many problemsAnd there’s not much love to go aroundCan’t you see this is the land of confusion?” Without the context of where those words come from, they may just be words on a page to you. Remember back a few weeks ago when I mentioned in…
Genesis 50:15-21 “Best Laid Plans” {Prayer} The design of anything, whether it be the building of a house or something much smaller like a toy box, whether it is the developing of a curriculum program for an entire school or even a lesson plan for one day, for one class, whether it be…