Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul (in person and live on Zoom)
Third Sunday of
Advent, Revised Common Lectionary Year C
Luke 3:7-18
We don't talk about money in church nearly as much as people talk about it in the Bible, so today let's do that, like John the Baptist does in our Gospel lesson.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul (in person and live on Zoom)
Second Sunday of
Advent, Revised Common Lectionary Year C
Luke 1:68-79
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul (in person and live on Zoom)
First Sunday of Advent, Revised Common Lectionary Year C
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul (in person and live on Zoom)
Feast of the Reign of Christ, Revised Common Lectionary Year B
The eternal cosmic Christ, angels and thrones and fire and the battle between good and evil is all part of the story the church tells this time of year. We can also remember that all these grand narratives come down to the actual lives of actual people whom God loves.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul (in person and live on Zoom)
25th Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 33, Revised Common Lectionary Year B
With our final Mark reading of the lectionary year, we find the disciples still failing to follow Jesus faithfully, and Jesus still making promises that God will reward our faith even as the sky seems to be falling around us.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul (in person and live on Zoom)
All Saints Sunday, Revised Common Lectionary Year B
At the end of our Bible, God promises to make all things new. Death and mourning and crying and pain remain with us, even as God promises they will be no more. We trust in God's promise.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul (in person and live on Zoom)
Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 30, Revised Common Lectionary Year B
Mark 10:46-52
When Jesus restores sight to Bartimaeus, we learn both about Jesus and about an unlikely paragon of faith and prayer.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul (in person and live on Zoom)
21st Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 29, Revised Common Lectionary Year B
Mark 10:35-45
After Jesus again tells of his impending arrest, suffering, death, and resurrection, James and John ask a stupid question of Jesus. Jesus talks about leadership as servanthood and about points us toward the truth of freedom in Christ.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul (in person and live on Zoom)
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 26, Revised Common Lectionary Year B
Mark 9:38-50
What a messy
Gospel lesson today! What will Jesus need to say or do to make people finally
understand that they (we) need to care about one another?
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul (in person and live on Zoom)
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 24, Revised Common Lectionary Year B
Mark 8:27-38
What did it
mean for Jesus to be the Messiah? What does it mean for us to follow him? Here
at Hope Church right now, we have a unique opportunity to take up our cross and
follow.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
IN PERSON!! In our building! Wow!
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 13, Year B
On this first day back in worship together, in person, in our building, with a baptism and Eucharist, what better scripture to convey the breadth of our feelings than Psalm 30?
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)
Third Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 11, Year B
Jesus' parables of seeds growing into plants don't tell us how God's beloved community grows, but they do tell us that if we trust in God, we will see that growth.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)
Second
Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 10, Year B
As demonstrated in today's challenging scriptures from Mark's Gospel and from Genesis, evil and division and mutual enmity break our relationships with each other and with God. But that's not the whole of our story in Jesus.
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Hope
Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Holy Trinity Sunday, Lectionary Year B
Isaiah 6:1-8
Isaiah's ministry was formed and informed by the trauma of a king's death, war, and a terrifying holy vision. This famous call of Isaiah looks different in light of the collective trauma we have experienced over the past year, and we may be able to see ourselves in this story in a new way.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Pentecost Sunday, Lectionary Year B
The Holy Spirit brings us hope, binds us together, and intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Fifth Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year B
God is love. What does this mean for us? How do we love one another?
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Hope
Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Fourth Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year B
Our second lesson from First John gives us a powerful vision of what it can look like to live out the love of God we have received in Jesus. How can the lessons of that community so long ago shape our church's faithful response today?
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Third Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year B
"You are
witnesses of these things." Jesus' words to his disciples look different
after all we have witnessed in our community and our nation this week.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Resurrection of Our Lord: Easter Sunday, Lectionary Year B
Death is real, and so is resurrection. Even in this time of pandemic, you are not alone.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Maundy Thursday
Jesus' last evening with his disciples is filled with important moments. It is a night that weighs heavily on followers of Jesus, but we are not alone in carrying that weight.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)
Palm Sunday / Sunday of the Passion, Lectionary Year B
As we enter this Holy Week with Jesus' entry into Jerusalem and the story of his death, we can leave our expectations behind.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Fifth Sunday of Lent, Lectionary Year B
Jesus' heart is troubled in today's lesson as he tries again to explain his impending death and resurrection, this time only days before it occurs. As we lament anti-Asian racism and violence, we recognize this story of a troubled heart, death, and resurrection.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Fourth Sunday of Lent, Lectionary Year B
Today's lesson
from Ephesians gives us a clear and concise description of the power of God's
grace in our lives.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Second Sunday of Lent, Lectionary Year B
Just as Jesus died and rose again, his body on earth - the church - lives into God's future through death and resurrection.
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hear this podcast: listen here, use this link,
or use iTunes or Google Play Music to subscribe or listen by searching
"Tengwall," or find it on Spotify by searching "Reverend
Killjoy."
Saint Paul Eastside Collaborative: Hope, Our Redeemer, Grace, and Arlington Hills Lutheran Churches
This
four-minute reflection on Jesus' time in the wilderness focuses on the curious
detail that "he was with the wild beasts." What was that about?
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)
First Sunday of Lent, Lectionary Year B
God's covenant
with Noah and all animals serves as an early indication of God's unending
grace.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday feels different on Zoom. This year we incorporated the imposition of ashes and also an anointing into a unique two-part sermon-and-ritual.
You can participate in the ritual parts by using ash or an ash substitute - dirt, dust, washable marker, flour, whatever - as well as some olive oil for the anointing.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Second Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year B
No matter how
far we have felt from the mountaintop this past year, Jesus is here with us. He
came down from the mountain for us.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, Lectionary Year B
In our Gospel story today, after Jesus heals many and casts out demons at Peter's house, Peter tells Jesus "everyone is searching for you." Today, again, everyone is searching for something. How can we be the body of Christ for one another in times like these?
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)
Second
Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year B
Paul says don't eat meat! I haven't had meat since 2001. Ha! Just kidding. The decisions we make do affect others, and our faith calls us to act with responsibility toward our neighbors.
Also, I apologize first for this being a week late, secondly for accidentally recording into the following hymn, and thirdly for not figuring out how to edit that out.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Third Sunday after Epiphany, Lectionary Year B
Jesus begins his public ministry in Mark's Gospel with the bold declaration that the time has been fulfilled. In the 100th year of our congregation, Hope Lutheran, we will be looking to God's fulfillment of time and what God will be doing next.
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Hope
Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Baptism of Our Lord, Lectionary Year B
In light of the
cross and the noose erected on the grounds of our nation's Capitol building
this week, we looked into Dr. James Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree to
help us make sense of Christianity in America today before diving back into the
baptism and repentance of our scripture for today.
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Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul
(gathered
via Zoom for live online worship)
Second
Sunday of Christmas, Lectionary Year B
We begin the new year with the Word made flesh, and all that means for us.
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