Monthly Archives: June 2009

Text: John 2:1-11
Date: June 26, 2009
Grace Lutheran Church, Redford Township, MI
In the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Dear family and friends, Deb and Roy, Alice, kids, and especially you, Heather and Jonathan, peace be to you, and grace, from Him who freed us from our sins, and [...] Continue reading →

Text: Mark 4:35-41
Date: Pentecost III (Proper 7) + 6/21/09
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
Up to this point in Mark’s Gospel the evangelist has told of Jesus performing a number of healing miracles. It’s really something, isn’t it? that we so easily get to the point of not being impressed, of taking it [...] Continue reading →

Date: 6/15/09
St. John Lutheran Church, Fraser, MI
Dear Christian friends, friends and acquaintances of Ron Smith, Pastor Merrill, Pastor Fischer, and especially you Diane, Pastor Bradley and Judy, Corey and Alison, Nathan, and you Tim, Jacob, Ian and Lauren:
Peace be to you, and grace, from Him who freed us from our sins (Rev. 1:4-5). In the [...] Continue reading →

Text: Mark 4:26-34
Date: Pentecost II (Proper 6) + 6/14/09
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI

Today we enter “the long, green season” of the church year. We wish to remind everyone, however, that the colors of the liturgical year were chosen first and our use of the color green has nothing whatsoever [...] Continue reading →

Text: Isaiah 6:1-8
Date: The Holy Trinity + 6/7/09
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI

On the First Sunday after Pentecost the western Christian Church celebrates not an event nor a person but a doctrine, a mystery, namely, that the one, true God has revealed Himself in sacred scripture as a trinity of [...] Continue reading →