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“All In” for the Lord

Text:  Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship The NFL Football season is starting this week.  It made me think of the run up to the Super bowl last year.  I suppose you are tired of me […]

Dressed to Follow Jesus

Text:  Ephesians 4: 17-24 Want an interesting discussion?  Get together a group of young and old. Bring up what to wear for worship. For my mom and dad, what you wore made a statement about what you were doing.   If you went to see the mayor, you got dressed up. Even more so, if you came into God’s house.  It […]

Out of Many, Oneness in Christ

Text:  Ephesians 4: 1-7; 11-16 If you look at the backside of a dollar bill, you will see the seal of the United States.  If you look real closely at the seal you will see the Latin saying:  E pluribus unum.  Do you remember what that means?  Out of many, one.  Out of many peoples has come our one nation-the […]

In Christ, We Are One

Text:  Ephesians 2: 13-22 I am a Wisconsin synod Lutheran pastor.  You are member of a Lutheran church in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod/Evangelical Lutheran Synod.  As Lutherans we have certain convictions and beliefs.  Because we do we keep a kind of distance from those Christians that preach some things we believe are false.  So we don’t invite those other […]

In Christ, God Has Blessed You Beyond Measure

Text:  Ephesians 1: 3-14 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us to be […]