Sermon: Hebrews 4:9-16 Pentecost 22 – October 21, 2018 – Rev. Steven J. Radunzel When I was young my parents brought my brothers and sister and me to church every Sunday. We really did go to church every Sunday. That’s why it was very unusual one summer Sunday, when I
Continue readingSermon: Numbers 11:16, 24-29 Pentecost 19 – September 30, 2018 – Rev. Steven J. Radunzel We all know what job security is. Anyone who has the responsibility to support him or herself, and especially someone who has the added responsibility of supporting a whole family, knows very well what job
Continue readingJames 2:1-5, 8-10, 14-18 Pentecost 17 – September 16, 2018 – Rev. Steven J. Radunzel Some of you have perhaps seen the commercial on television where a husband and wife, looking very tired from lack of sleep, open their medicine cabinet to find a man standing on the other side
Continue readingActs 1:15-26 Pentecost 16 Earlier this summer I attended the ordination and installation service of William Schubert as the pastor of our sister congregation Heritage Lutheran in Lindenhurst. Pastor Schubert is a 2018 graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, WI and was assigned a call as the pastor of
Continue readingJohn 14:21-23 Pentecost 15 Ever since 9/11 we have become increasingly aware of the names of militant Islamic groups that are not our friends. Al Quida was one of the first names we learned. In the last two or three years we’ve heard too many times the name ISIS which
Continue readingJohn 2:13-17 Pentecost 12 A number of years ago I watched a movie called “Time Changer” that was produced by a Christian film company. It was a fictional story about a seminary professor who lived in the late 1800’s in the United States. This seminary professor was also a bit
Continue readingPhilippians 2:9-11 If I asked you this morning who the pastor of Immanuel was fifty years ago, some of you would remember that it was Pastor Oscar Lemke. If I asked you who was the pastor of Immanuel about sixty or seventy years ago, probably a smaller group of people
Continue readingPhilippians 1:18b-27 Pentecost 18 How much do you want to go to heaven? I’m sure that probably all of you would say that you want to go to heaven a lot. You want to go to heaven really badly. It’s the most important thing imaginable. But what if Jesus appeared
Continue readingGenesis 50:15-21 Pentecost 17 Have you ever been at anyone’s mercy? If you have you know that it’s not such a good place to be. For example if you’ve ever been stopped by the police for speeding you have a bit of an idea what it’s like to be at
Continue readingJeremiah 15:15-21 Pentecost 15 The Southern Poverty Law Center is a legal advocacy organization in civil rights litigation that was begun in 1971. In plain words they’ve been a group that watches out for and comes to the legal assistance of those whose rights as citizens may be threatened. Recently,
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