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		<title>All Together</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Heller]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alleluia! Christ is risen! Have any of you ever – either in work or a school environment – had to do one of those retreats where they do team building exercises? You know, trust falls, and the like? When I &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Transforming Witness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Heller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 21:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alleluia! Christ is risen! Well, fortunately, after all of that, I’ve managed to get the need to relate everything to Star Wars out of my system for today. After all, a reading from Acts involving a person who has ruthlessly &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christ is Risen! Now What?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Heller]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alleluia! Christ is risen! So… now what? The truth is, the disciples themselves weren’t sure what to do after they had received the news that Christ was alive again. Mary Magdalene, after seeing Jesus alive in the garden in John’s &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Truth That Brings Us Together</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Heller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2024 17:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Truth is a tricky thing isn’t it? Ideally, truth is Truth, with a capital T, immutable, unchangeable, but the longer we’re in our interconnected world, the more it seems like truth isn’t as certain as it should be. And just &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Finding Joy in Christ’s Community</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Heller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 18:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today we hear Jesus continue his farewell discourse, where – just prior to Judas betraying him – Jesus speaks words of comfort and challenge to his other eleven disciples. And let’s be honest, I think at this point Jesus’ disciples &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Some Pruning Required</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Heller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Rev. Doctor Susan Briehl, occasional visiting professor at Wartburg Theological Seminary, once shared the following reflection: several years ago, someone at Wartburg Theological Seminary decided that their seminary needed a vineyard on a portion of it. There was a &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Good Shepherd</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Hopkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don’t know about you, but throughout the course of the week, I find I spend a little too much time on news websites – some local, some national. And what I mean by “too much time” I really mean &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christ is Risen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Heller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 15:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is the day that we encounter the empty tomb, and wonder. Today we hear the good news that – Christ is risen! I promise there’s a point to that. We hear this good news. We have already broken out &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dearly Loved and Prayed For</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2023 20:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Easter 7A2023 John 17:1-11 Today, Jesus prays for the disciples. It’s Maundy Thursday, and before Jesus starts teaching and praying, he washes the disciples’ feet. Just a chapter later, Jesus will be betrayed by Judas, arrested by soldiers, and denied &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Being Church&#8230;Together</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 19:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Easter 6A2023 John 14:15-21 On the night before his crucifixion, because he knows he will leave his disciples, Jesus promises to send them the spirit. You know the Spirit, Jesus says, because the Spirit abides in you, and the Spirit &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Gotcha!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2023 19:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Easter 5A2023 John 14:1-14 The summer of 2014, three chaperones, me included, and 10 middle school and high school youth piled into two vans and drove from Phoenix to a Lutheran Bible camp outside Eugene, Oregon. On our way to &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Life Abundant</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2023 22:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Easter 4A2023 John 10:1-10 Jesus said: I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. All I’ve got this morning is testimony. I know what it’s like to not have abundant life, and I bet you do too. &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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