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(S1) — What is heaven like? Movies/books/eyewitness accounts What will we be like in heaven? What will our day look like? Adam’s Question — Pizza? A less considered question — What will we wear? Will we have closets, lined with an abundance of heavenly garments? While the scriptures reveal much about…

Trouble in the Text: What is the Good News that brings happiness? Matthew 3 started with an invitation to true holiness and happiness Here Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down —where there was room for them all. His disciples —not only his twelve disciples, but all who desired to learn of him.…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, on this day when we remember all those who have come home to sit at the foot of your throne, help in this time and space to hear words of wisdom, peace, and especially comfort this day. Now, o God, help us to open our ears to hear and our eyes to envision you and…

It can be a difficult time in the church these days. Can we honestly believe that God is still active (with declining attendance, diminishing resources, ... ) That is exactly what we're called to do, and remember the faith of the people who have gone before us.

Yesterday Yesterday, I started my morning by checking my calendar. Now I’m pretty bad at reaching out to people on their birthdays, but I’m trying to get better. I have started adding birthdays to contact information, and I’m trying to reach out to people on their special day. I’m still awful at it,…

This is, arguably, my favorite Sunday. Please remember though that I speak in hyperbole, so I reserve the right to call many other Sundays my favorite Sunday. But this, I think, really is my favorite Sunday besides Easter because on this Sunday I get to confess as clearly and as loudly as I want to the…

October 31 is . . . Reformation Day! But how many observe it? What we as Americans observe is, and what we have been preparing for, which seems like weeks, is . . . Halloween. Did you know that "Halloween" has Christian roots? How so? And how far back does it go? And why is there so much focus on death on October 31? What is it all about? Come with the Grace United crew as we discover the bad, the good and the glorious elements of Halloween.

An All Saints Day meditation on the nature of sainthood and holy living.

So most of us coming from more informal church backgrounds are probably a little perplexed by something like All Saints Day. In many of our neighborhood churches they celebrate Christmas and Easter as major feast days. In more liturgical setting, where the church looks to the ancient church for its inspirations…

Salvation belongs to our God and is ours through faith in Jesus.

All Saints Sunday November 3, 2024 A Great Cloud of Witnesses Hebrews 12:1-3 Sermon Slide Good morning on this day of remembrance. Today, we remember the saints who have passed from this life to the next in the past 12 months as we also remember the life, death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord and…

Salvation belongs to our God through faith in Jesus.

As we head toward the holidays, there comes a time when we slow down to remember those that have gone before us. It is said that we stand on the shoulders of giants and this is true. How many of us were able to go to college or to work in a job we wanted to because someone went before us and blazed a…

Daniel - apocalyptic - not sure I will use it. Ephesians - Inheritance - we live for the praise of Jesus’ glory, we receive the Holy Spirit - the pledge of our inheritance. A lot of it is specifically to the community of Ephesians Luke - a strange All Saints text: Hope on the horizon - for no poverty,…

All Saints 2022 11 In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will, 12 so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory. 13 In him you also,…

Sermon on Revelation 7:13-17 All Saint’s Sunday November 30, 2022 Saint Paul Lutheran Church And Trinity Lutheran Church McGregor and Guttenberg, Iowa Text: “Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?” I said to him, “Sir, you know.”…

Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; 8 it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. I. Today we celebrate the feast of All Saints…

We are sure of our Salvation because we have been made a saint through Christ.

We remember the examples the saints of God set before us on All Saint's Day.

Introduction/Sermon though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal,…

ASL November 1st = All Saints’ Day All Saints' Day is a solemn holy day of the Catholic Church celebrated annually on November 1. The day is dedicated to the saints of the Church, that is, all those who have attained heaven. It should not be confused with All Souls' Day, which is observed on November…

I. Springfield Mass, Cooperstown, NY,; Canton Ohio, Toronto, Ontario; St. Augustine Florida A. All have something in common. B. Cities with a Hall of Fame. 1. Springfield, MA-- Basketball Hall of Fame 2. Cooperstown, NY --Baseball Hale of Fame 3. Canton, OH -- Football Hall of Fame 4. Toronto, Ontario…

28 One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; 30 you shall love the Lord your God with all your…

Sermon for All Saints Sunday