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8 mins read|04/15/19Since God is most high, He can only look down. Nothing is above Him. No one is more exalted than He is.
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13 mins read|04/14/19As preachers approach Holy Week, it is sometimes difficult to plan ahead. With a number of sermons to prepare, it can sometimes feel like you’re just trying to keep your head above water, say whatever the given text says for that service, and move on preparing the next.
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16 mins read|03/24/19Lenten meditation is the one time Luther might advise us to be turning in on ourselves--and taking a cold, honest glance. For only in the shadow of the Cross can we look honsetly into the cause of the death of the man from Nazareth, the second person of the Trinity.
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7 mins read|06/06/18A Roman execution device isn't exactly a picturesque scene of divine love on display.
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13 mins read|03/29/18The disciples and Christ have just finished their last meal together. The disciples, of course, didn't know this, but Jesus did.
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10 mins read|03/28/18What makes a meal more than food? We all have important meals in our lives; birthday meals; anniversary meals; traditional holiday meals.
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8 mins read|03/27/18On episode FIFTY-TWO of Let the Bird Fly! Rev. John Bortulin joins the guys to discuss Holy Week…and Easter 2.
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12 mins read|04/14/17Have you ever wondered, of all the adjectives we could use to describe this day why in the world we chose the word “good?” Yeah, me too.
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4 mins read|04/12/17On episode three of Let the Bird Fly! we welcome our first (adult) guest, Rev. John Bortulin, to discuss Holy Week from the pulpit and the pew, touching on topics such as Passion Sunday and the Triduum.
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11 mins read|03/24/16That man you see on the tree—he is the re-Genesis of the world. He has come to remake us alive and free and beautiful on the Friday of his crucifixion.
