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Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Lect. 14 B

We worship a God who fails by the world’s standards, not using power and dominance but coming in vulnerable, sacrificial love. That love heals us and the world, and we are sent to “fail” like God with our lives and love.

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Presiding and preaching: Pr. Joseph Crippen

Readings and prayers: Al Bostelmann, lector; David Engen, Assisting Minister

Organist: Cantor David Cherwien

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Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Lect. 13 B

We worship the Triune God in the midst of a world of suffering – ours and others – and wait and hope for God’s steadfast love and mercies to transform us and the world.

Download worship folder for Sunday, June 27, 2021.

Presiding and preaching: Pr. Joseph Crippen

Readings and prayers: Teresa Rothausen, lector; Vicar Bonneville DeNaples, Assisting Minister

Organist: Cantor David Cherwien

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Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Lect. 11 B

In the midst of the storms of this world and our lives, all God’s creatures cry out to God. Today in our worship, God shows up, as to Job and the disciples, and brings peace and stillness, is present in all suffering. Nothing can separate us from God’s love in Christ.

Download worship folder for Sunday, June 20, 2021.

Presiding and preaching: Pr. Joseph Crippen

Readings and prayers: Amy Thompson, lector; David Anderson, Assisting Minister

Organist: Cantor David Cherwien

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Third Sunday after Pentecost, Lect. 11 B

The mustard seed becomes a great shrub that shelters the birds, recalling ancient images of the tree of life. We’d expect a cedar (as in Ezekiel’s prophecy from this morning), but Jesus finds the power of God better imaged in a tiny, no-account seed. It’s not the way we expect divine activity to look. Yet the tree of life is here, into which we are grafted through baptism. It may not appear all that impressive, but while nobody’s looking it grows with a power beyond our understanding.

Download worship folder for June 13, 2021.

Presiding: Pr. Joseph Crippen

Preaching: Vicar Andrea Bonneville

Readings and prayers: Peggy Hoeft, lector; Steve Berg, Assisting Minister

Organist: Cantor David Cherwien

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Second Sunday after Pentecost, Lect. 10 B

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Jesus makes this observation in light of charges that he is possessed. He is possessed, not by a demon, but by the Holy Spirit. We who have received the Holy Spirit are joined to Christ’s death and resurrection and knit together in the body of Christ.

Download worship folder for June 6, 2021.

Presiding and Preaching: Pr. Joseph Crippen

Readings and prayers: Eric Manuel, lector; Lora Dundek, Assisting Minister

Organist: Cantor David Cherwien

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The feast of the Holy Trinity, year B

We worship the Triune God who invites the whole creation into the love that is God’s life and essence.

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Presiding and Preaching: Pr. Joseph Crippen

Readings and prayers: Mark Ruff, lector; Vicar Andrea Bonneville, Assisting Minister

Organist: Cantor David Cherwien

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