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Fourth Sunday in Lent March 30, 2025

3/30/2025

Readings: Joshua 5:9-12 / Psalm 32 / 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 / Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Introduction: The psalm sets the tone this day: “Happy are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sin is put away!” Happy are those who have “become the righteousness of God” in the merits of Christ Jesus. Happy are those for whom the forgiveness of God has “rolled away . . . the disgrace” of former times. Happy is the father at the return of his prodigal son. Happy are we that our sins are forgiven for Jesus’ sake. Rejoice!

Sermon: Pastor Kathryn Gulbranson

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Third Sunday in Lent March 23, 2025

3/23/2025

Readings: Isaiah 55:1-9 / Psalm 63:1-8 / 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 / Luke 13:1-9

Introduction: The warnings are plentiful and blunt on the third Sunday in Lent. Cut it out or get cut down! The warnings are accompanied by God’s invitation to attentiveness: “Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live.” The landowner’s ultimatum is forestalled by the gardener’s readiness to till the ground one more year. That is good news for all of us. Thanks be to God!

Sermon: Pastor Kathryn Gulbranson

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Second Sunday in Lent March 16, 2025

3/16/2025

Readings: Genesis 15:1–12, 17–18 / Psalm 27 / Philippians 3:17—4:1 / Luke 13:31–35

Introduction: Though we sometimes doubt and often resist God’s desire to protect and save us, our God persists. In holy baptism, God’s people have been called and gathered into a God-initiated relationship that will endure. Lent provides the church with a time and a tradition in which to seek God’s face again. Lent provides another occasion to behold the God of our salvation in the face of the Blessed One who “comes in the name of the Lord.”

Sermon: Pastor Kathryn Gulbranson

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First Sunday in Lent March 9, 2025

3/9/2025

Readings: Deuteronomy 26:1-11 / Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 / Romans 10:8b-13 / Luke 4:1-13

Introduction: These forty days called Lent are like no other. It is our opportune time to return to the God who rescues, to receive the gifts of God’s grace, to believe with the heart and confess with the mouth the wonder of God’s love in Jesus, and to resist temptation at every turn. This is no small pilgrimage on which we have just embarked. It is a struggle Jesus knew. It is a struggle Jesus shares. The nearness of the Lord, in bread and wine, water and word, will uphold and sustain us.

Sermon: Pastor Kathryn Gulbranson

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Transfiguration of Our Lord March 2, 2025

3/2/2025

Readings: Exodus 34:29-35/ Psalm 99/ 2 Corinthians 3:12—4:2/ Luke 9:28-36 [37-43a]
Introduction: Witnesses to the glory of God in the face of Jesus reflect that glory in the world. It was true for Moses. It was doubtless true for Peter, James, and John. We pray that it will be true of all of us who see God’s glory in the word and in the supper and who are being “transformed into the same image” by God’s Spirit.

Sermon: Pastor Clay Schmit

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Fourth Sunday in Lent March 30, 2025

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Second Sunday in Lent March 16, 2025

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