Sunday May 31, 2020 – Day of Pentecost Acts 2:1-21 & John 20:19-23 New Life Lutheran, Dripping Springs, Texas Sermon: A prayer for a soft Pentecost breeze Carmen Retzlaff Acts 2:1 ¶ When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. Acts 2:2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Acts 2:3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on e

May 24, 2020 New Life Lutheran Church, Dripping Springs, Texas God, we are so thankful to be here today. We give you thanks for this day. We give you thanks for each other, this beloved community: thank you for being able to gather and see each other’s faces again. God, we are so thankful for this land, this church. Thank you for a place to worship you that is also a place to be out in your creation. Thank you for the space to wander, and to spread out, and to be safer from s

Sermon for Sunday May 17, 2020 – Sixth Sunday of Easter John 14:15-21 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you. 18 “I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. 19 I

Sunday May 10,2020 – 5th Sunday of Easter Acts 7:55-60 ~ Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 ~ 1 Peter 2:2-10 ~ John 14:1-14 Sermon, Carmen Retzlaff, New Life Lutheran Church, Dripping Springs, Texas Acts 7:55-60 7:55 But filled with the Holy Spirit, he gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 7:56 "Look," he said, "I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!" 7:57 But they covered their ears, and with a loud s

Plan for May - June 2020, New Life Lutheran Pastor Carmen Retzlaff, April 27, 2020 ~ approved by Leadership Team This is a preliminary plan, based on the April 16, 2020 “White House Guidelines for Opening Up America Again” , which outlines three phases of re-opening, based on local public health markers of declining number of identified COVID-19 cases, and the April 22 “Coming Back Together As a Congregation Guidelines” issued by the bishops of the three Texas synods of the E

Sermon – Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 2:42-47 ~ John 10:1-10 New Life Lutheran Church, Dripping Springs, Texas John 10:1 ¶ “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. John 10:2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. John 10:3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. John 10:4 When he has br