Sixth Sunday of Easter, Pastor Bradley E. Schmeling
John 14:15-21 Mark Ralls, a United Methodist Pastor, was trying to visit a member in a senior care facility. As if often the case in such visits, it took place in an atrium where another woman had...
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John 20:19-33 + Acts 2:1-21 Dear Friends in Christ, First let’s simply say his name: George Floyd. (Show picture of George Floyd, site where he died.) His life mattered. Black Lives Matter On the...
View ArticleFifth Sunday of Easter (Confirmation), Pastor Bradley E. Schmeling
John 15:1-11 http://www.gloriadeistpaul.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/180429_002.mp3 We lost one last year. When confirmation was finished, and we gathered on the front steps for the official picture...
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Today’s scripture readings: Acts 16:9-15; John 14:23-29 http://www.gloriadeistpaul.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-05-26.mp3 A few years ago, Saturday Night Live made one of those spoof TV...
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Luke 12:49-52 http://www.gloriadeistpaul.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/190818_002.mp3 In their book on leadership, Ed O’Mally and Amanda Cebula, write that people are either thermometers or...
View ArticleFifth Sunday of Easter, Pastor Bradley E. Schmeling
John 14:1-14 Jazz began on Congo square in New Orleans in the early 1800’s. Africans who had been enslaved and Native people would gather on Sunday, their only day off, bringing the instruments,...
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