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February 2014

February 26, 2014

“They’re not the enemy”

Have you noticed how Jesus fulfilled the Sermon on the Mount--turning the other cheek, returning...

February 25, 2014

Be different

We had another great sermon on Sunday. This one was about holiness, based on the...

February 19, 2014

Create in me a clean heart

Last Sunday, Pastor Douthwaite riffed on the hearts of Valentine's Day and on the sins...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

“They know not what they do”

We just celebrated the last Sunday of the Church Year--some call it the Sunday of...

November 18, 2013

Heaven and the widow of seven husbands

The Sunday before last, our Gospel reading was about the Sadducees who tried to shoot...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

“We are beggars; this is true”

The Reformation can be summed up in six words, according to our pastor in his...

October 09, 2013

‘”We have only done what was our duty”

The Gospel reading for last Sunday was the parable that makes perfectly clear why we...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

Pastors as Unjust Stewards

Our Scripture reading last Sunday included the Parable of the Unjust Steward (Luke 16:1-15), which...

September 12, 2013

You cannot be be my disciple

We had a powerful sermon last Sunday on one of those "difficult" passages of Scripture,...

June 2013

June 18, 2013

“The child who is born to you shall die”

The sermon last Sunday was about Nathan's preaching to King David about his sin with...

June 06, 2013

Cicadas and Resurrection

Our pastor had some good reflections in our church newsletter on the 17-year locusts (a.k.a....

April 2013

April 16, 2013

Being children of God

Last Sunday, Easter 3, our pastor preached on the appearance of the resurrected Jesus to...

April 09, 2013

God is present vs. God is present for you

I hope you had a happy Quasimodogeniti, the Second Sunday of Easter with perhaps the...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

“We must save our gods”

In church on Palm Sunday, our pastor gave another powerful sermon, with a great missionary...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

What pastors do

Last Sunday at church, in addition to receiving Holy Communion as we do every week,...

January 2013

January 22, 2013

Your God shall rejoice over you

Our church celebrated Sanctity of Life Sunday. After making a no-holds- barred attack on the...

November 2012

November 15, 2012

The widow and the End Times

Pastor Douthwaite's sermon last Sunday was based on the assigned text for that day, about...

November 01, 2012

The new normal

In the sermon for last Sunday, Pastor Douthwaite employed an interesting turn of phrase: There’s...

September 2012

September 12, 2012

“I will show you my faith by my works”

More from Sunday's sermon, in which Pastor Douthwaite also picked up on the Epistle reading,...

September 11, 2012

What Christ’s miracles mean

We had an illuminating sermon from Pastor Douthwaite last Sunday on Mark 7:31-37, in which...

September 05, 2012

Deep cleaning

Our sermon for last Sunday was based on Mark 7:14-23, in which Jesus says that...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

Tradition & Betrayal

Pastor Douthwaite gave a great sermon on Sunday, on Mark 7:1-13, in which Jesus chastizes...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

John the Baptist and us

We had another great sermon from Pastor Douthwaite on the death of John the Baptist...

May 2012

May 15, 2012

The two trees

Pastor Douthwaite, preaching from John 15:9-17 and 1 John 5:1-8: And speaking of Adam, he’s...

April 2012

April 25, 2012

He opens their mind to understand the Scriptures

More from Pastor Douthwaite's sermon last Sunday, on the connection between Scripture and Jesus: Luke...

April 24, 2012

Easter is for children

We had yet another good Easter sermon from Pastor Douthwaite, with the texts Luke 24:36-49...

April 02, 2012

He made Himself nothing

What a sermon we had on Palm Sunday to introduce Holy Week! Pastor Douthwaite preached...

March 2012

March 27, 2012

Christmas in Lent

Last Sunday was not only the 5th Sunday of Lent; it fell on March 25. ...

February 2012

February 15, 2012

Wash and be clean

At church last Sunday we had texts on Naaman the Leper (2 Kings 5:1-14) and...

February 07, 2012

Join us for morning prayer & devotions online

I am always saying how I appreciate my congregation, St. Athanasius Lutheran Church, and our...