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Sermon for the 4th Sunday after Pentecost - June 28, 2020

6/28/2020

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​Texts: Jeremiah 28:5-9; Romans 6:12-23; Matthew 10:40-42
June 28, 2020
 
About forty years ago, or a little more, I was backpacking in the Cascade Mountains. We would hike next to creeks until they became streambeds. The streambeds led to high mountain lakes, beyond which were tiny alpine tarns, some of which never are free of ice all summer. Highest of all were the glaciers and snowfields where the watershed always begins.

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Sermon for the Second Sunday after Pentecost - June 14, 2020

6/14/2020

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Texts: Exodus 19:2-8a; Romans 5:1-8; Matthew 9:35 – 10:15
 
For the first three months of privation, it was mostly good. People took the changes, the loss of familiar work routines, lack of access to favorite foods, and separation from familiar haunts pretty well. Of course there were complaints about food shortages, a little chafing under the restrictions of the leading people in whom they’d had to put their trust.

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Sermon for the Day of Pentecost - May 31, 2020

6/1/2020

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Texts: Acts 2:1-21; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13; John 7:37-39
 
The Day of Pentecost. A festival day; people in party clothes, national prayers of remembrance and thanksgiving; lots of food and absolutely no social distancing whatsoever. And then out of nowhere, the Holy Spirit of God arrives in a mighty rush of wind and fire. Glorious and terrifying.

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    The Rev. Beth Purdum Eden is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church. She has served in more than 6 parishes in the Western United States for 30 years. 

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