Holy Week Services

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Our Holy Week Serivces are at the following times. All are welcome to join –

Maundy Thursday – April 1 @ 7:30 PM (Communion Service)
Good Friday – April 2 @ 7:30 PM (No Communion – Service of Reflection)
Easter Sunday – April 4 @ 10 AM (Communion)

We are at 779 Erie Station Rd, which is roughly . . . → Read More: Holy Week Services

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Palm Sunday – Hidden and Revealed

By Parson Brown, on 9:52 am%

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Our time and culture is one of the customized material goods and a generalized God. What I mean by that is we can have our burger our way and get 300 formulas of shampoo, but there are no limits or descriptions that apply universally for God. The culture believes God is love and . . . → Read More: Palm Sunday – Hidden and Revealed

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Specific Grace – Relooking at the Prodigal Son – Lk 15:11-32

By Parson Brown, on 11:43 am%

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There are a number of points I review and judge a sermon on. Being cut and thrust personality, I like criteria for evaluation that are as crunchy (vs. squishy) as possible. Coming out of a number of sources (CFW Walther’s Law & Gospel, Dr. Schmitt my Homiletics Prof at Concordia, Robert Dabney through . . . → Read More: Specific Grace – Relooking at the Prodigal Son – Lk 15:11-32

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Deep Lent

By Parson Brown, on 6:36 pm%

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I’ll just say I hated the text this week. It was harsh and rough, and I couldn’t escape it. Everything I read to prepare for preaching just lead deeper into the heart of repentance. Everything lead to heart rending stories. A better preacher would have been more winsome. Me, . . . → Read More: Deep Lent

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem…

By Parson Brown, on 6:23 pm%

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…The father desires for all His children to be under that protecting wing. That protecting wing that has taken care of and planned out all the necessities. All the ultimate necessities – our sin which separated us from the Father that prevented us from being gathered, the death that results from that sin, . . . → Read More: Jerusalem, Jerusalem…

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True Story

By Parson Brown, on 6:19 pm%

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…That lostness in our culture. The fragmentation and the pain caused by it. The anxiousness and distrust and conflict. Understandable – we’ve misplaced God’s story.

But today, and this season of Lent, are your chance to reclaim it. Find who you are in God’s story. You are a chosen person. . . . → Read More: True Story

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Staying Awake – the role of Prayer and Transfiguration

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…But, isn’t Peter’s experience a little like our prayer life most of the time. We’ve been sleeping. Not paying too much attention to the wonders and sorrows around us. More concerned about filling our bellies, amusing away the time and getting a good night’s sleep. But then something changes…really quick. . . . → Read More: Staying Awake – the role of Prayer and Transfiguration

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