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Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost - July 14, 2019

7/14/2019

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Texts: Deuteronomy 30:9-14; Colossians 1:1-14; Luke 10:25-37
 
We all know the game twenty questions, right?  People have been playing it since the 1800s.  Someone gets to think of an object and the other players get to ask twenty questions for clues to figure out what the object might be.  There are variations of course, but this is the basic idea.

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Sermon for Fourth Sunday after Pentecost - July 7, 2019

7/14/2019

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Texts: Isaiah 66:10-14; Galatians 6:[1-6] 7-16; Luke 10:1-111, 16-20
 
The mission field.  It’s a big place.  Jesus sent out seventy of his followers two by two.  Seventy is a lot.  After all, Jesus wasn’t very far into his own good news mission, so it seems likely that though the level of enthusiasm among his followers was high, maybe their talent for mission work was variable at best.  You have to wonder what the standard deviation was.  Maybe that explains why Jesus gave such a flurry of last minute instructions.


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Sermon for Third Sunday after Pentecost - June 30, 2019

7/14/2019

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Texts: 1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21; Galatians 5:1, 13-25; Luke 9:51-62
 
Raymundo was a skinny little kid, maybe seven years old when I first laid eyes on him.  His grandmother brought him to church because he lived in her home with his sister and dad.  Raymundo’s mom wasn’t in the picture consistently.  She was in and out of prison because of drug addiction and lived mostly in halfway houses.


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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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