Sunday Apr 26, 2020 - 3rd Sunday of Easter - New Life Lutheran Church Luke 24:13-35 I love this story of Jesus meeting these disciples on the road to Emmaus. I love it for many reasons. One is that these “disciples” are people we’ve never heard of before - or since. We tend to think of Jesus’ disciples as very famous people - Peter, John, Judas. People we know 2,000 years later in history. But Cleopas, and some one not even named? There were many disciples, followers of Jesu

Job 38 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind…”I will question you, and you shall declare to me….Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain, and a way for the thunderbolt, to bring rain on a land where no one lives, on the desert, which is empty of human life, to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass?” —- Today, April 22, 2020, is the 50th anniversary of the celebration of Earth Day in the U.S. and around the world. It is a d

Sermon - April 19, 2020 John 20:19-31 New Life Lutheran Church, Dripping Springs, Texas Jesus sounds ghost-y here in this story in John. During the fifty days of the Easter season, we hear these stories of Jesus appearing. He does strange things and sort of supernatural things. Sometimes the disciples don’t recognize him at first, even after he’s been with them for a while, like on the road to Emmaus. They are not sure it is him, or not sure he is real. And this goes on for w

PASSION/PALM SUNDAY, APRIL 5...PSALM 31: 14-16, 24 “​BUT I TRUST IN YOU, O LORD; I SAY, ‘YOU ARE MY GOD.’ MY TIMES ARE IN YOUR HAND; DELIVER ME FROM THE HAND OF MY ENEMIES AND PERSECUTORS. LET YOUR FACE SHINE UPON YOUR SERVANT; SAVE ME IN YOUR STEADFAST LOVE...BE STRONG, AND LET YOUR HEART TAKE COURAGE, ALL YOU WHO WAIT FOR THE LORD.” ​In this time of uncertainty and surreal-ness in which we find ourselves, there is fear, and even hopelessness for some who are caught in the r

Change So much change, so fast. Passion reading: Matthew 26:14-27:66 This Sunday is Palm Sunday, or Palm & Passion Sunday. Usually at New Life, we just stick with Palm Sunday, and let the passion story, the story of Jesus’ crucifixion and death, unfold in the readings of Holy Week - the last supper on Maundy Thursday; the story of the passion on Good Friday. This year, we will not gather at the land to read those texts, so the “sermon” today is really the long passion reading