Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
I pray you have had a blessed week!
Spring is getting closer! While watching the weather report this morning, the meteorologist said that, beginning this weekend, a warming trend is on its way. Well, I don’t know about you, but I am ready for a warming trend. In fact, I am to the point that I really want to see the trees begin to bud and…
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Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen
We are so accustomed to the story of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection that I don’t really believe that we can fully appreciate how hard it must been for those first disciples to listen to Jesus and comprehend what he was telling them. At the…
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
I pray you have had a blessed week!
As you know, over the past several years, Salem has made a very concerted effort to be missional. That is, our goal is to be active in God’s mission in the community around us so that we might be a place that is active in sharing the Gospel and offering hope to a broken world.
One of the key ways we…
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Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen
As I was reading our Gospel story this morning you might have been sitting there saying, hey, haven’t we already read this story this year? Well, yes, we have read parts of this story on two different occasions in the past five weeks. On the first…
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
I pray you have had a blessed week!
Later this year, on August 9, to be exact, Jill and I will celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary. We met while we were still in high school, and after dating for over four years, as Jill would say, “We finally got married!” You know, when you’ve been together as long as we have, you have…
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Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen
This past Sunday, we read the story of Jesus’ Transfiguration and in that story, God speaks and as I noted on Sunday, what makes that story so powerful for me is that when God speaks, it is the only time he speaks directly to us humans in the gospel.…
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Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen
Just five weeks ago we began the Season of Epiphany. Now, the word epiphany comes from the Greek word epiphaneia, which means “disclosure” or “unveiling,” so in the early church the term began to be associated with those times when God…
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
I pray you have had a blessed week!
This time of year, time moves so quickly in the church. I mean, it seems like just yesterday that we were celebrating Christmas and now, in just a few days, we will gather to begin the Season of Lent. Yes, Ash Wednesday is next week. That means that this Sunday our men’s ministry groups will be holding…
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Grace and peace to you from God our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in which of us. Amen
Our story today takes place in Capernaum. You see, we know this because today’s gospel is a continuation of our story last week and last week we read that Jesus and his disciples were in Capernaum. This is the archeological site of Capernaum today.…
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
I pray you have had a blessed week!
Do you ever get so busy you just can’t focus? Do you ever get so busy that you forget what it is that you are supposed to be doing? I know I do, and I find it very frustrating. As I read through our Gospel text for this coming Sunday, Mark 1:29-39, I had to wonder, was Jesus so busy with healing folks…