Download Life Guides >Sermon Text: John 21:1-14 A companion is one with whom you eat your bread. In many cultures, the act of eating together is deeply meaningful. In modern restaurants, we sit near strangers, eat without saying a word to them, and leave. In Jesus’ culture, eating together was an almost sacred sign of…
Sermon Text: Hebrews 10:15-25 Not once has anyone come to me after an out of state trip to request ceremonial cleansing even though the law requires it. No one’s repented for wearing blended fabrics, as forbidden by the old law. I’ve never slaughtered your ram and burned it on the altar as atonement for your…
Sermon Text: Psalm 51:7 “Teacher, all these I’ve kept since I was a boy!” Jesus looked at him and loved him. Sigh. This is us more often than we’d like to admit. Most of us here already believe, and many of us have been believers for as long as we can remember. Because of that,…
When we hear things we don’t want to hear, we may become angry. Depending on our maturity, may retort with phrases like, “I know you are, but what am I?” or “I’m rubber, you’re glue; whatever you say bounces of me and sticks to you!” Sometimes, we reach the point of irritation where, like Miracle…
To see clearly is a good thing. It’s important to know you’re taking the right exit because you’ve seen exit sign, that you’re taking the proper medication because you’ve clearly read the label, and that you’re putting toothpaste on your toothbrush – not triple-action antibiotic cream. Seeing clearly spares you the embarrassment of wearing one…
If everyone else was going to jump off bridge, you wouldn’t, would you? Of course not. But what if you didn’t know you were jumping off a bridge? What if you were going along with what everyone else, or a big chunk of everyone, was doing or thinking which wasn’t great, but had no idea?…
When you go to the doctor for a check-up, they check your reflexes usually by taking out a small rubber mallet and giving the tendon below your knee a lil tap-tap. When that happens, your leg, in automatic response, reflexively, kicks out in front, if the reflex is functional that is. When a bad thing…
You can also listen to this sermon and more from Mount Olive Lutheran Church on Spotify. Sermon Text: Luke 2:41-52 What do you want to be when you grow up? This question is not my favorite. Why do we have to choose just one thing? Why do you have to choose before we’ve even done…
You can also listen to this sermon and more from Mount Olive Lutheran Church on Spotify. Hope In The God Who Doesn’t Change We were putting the Christmas tree up and all that good stuff, pumping the tunes. As decorations were going up and people were smiling and it smelled of cinnamon and cheer, because of…
You can also listen to this sermon and more from Mount Olive Lutheran Church on Spotify. Free from Fear to Live in Jesus What’s it look like to live free of fear of judgment? The saying, “Dance like no one’s watching,” comes to mind. I don’t like it when people watch me dance. I get…