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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