Sunday 10-11-2020

19th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links​​

• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

• Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here  they are also located below today's Sunday Worship video

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The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

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1. What faith practices have been helpful to you?

2. How difficult is it right now to "not worry about anything" as Paul says in the Phillipians text?  

3. How do your faith practices remind you that God is with you in every moment and situation?  How do they offer you hope?

4. When was the last time you tried out a new faith practice?

Sunday 10-04-2020

18th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links​​

• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

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Sunday 09-27-2020

17th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links​​

• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

• Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here  they are also located below today's Sunday Worship video

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The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

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1. What word of challenge and judgment is in this parable?
2. Count the number of times the word “authority” is used in this passage. What is at stake over the issue of authority?
3. What is the relationship between faith, repentance, and response? 

4. How does grace lead to changed lives – to repentance?
5. What word of grace is in this parable?  

6. What are examples in your own life when you changed your mind and commitment in order to follow Christ?  Or, another way to ask the question, ponder your “yes” and “no”.

7. Do your decisions consistently serve Christ?

8. How might God’s grace lead us to responsible living?

9. What does “responsible living” mean?

10. Why is God’s grace so challenging to receive?
11. How is your life different because of God’s grace?  

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Sunday 09-20-2020

16th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links​​

• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

• Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here  they are also located below today's Sunday Worship video

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The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

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1.  We can be just like Jonah, wishing punishment verses healing on our enemies.  Why do you think that is?  

2.  Have you ever been like Jonah, not wanting healing for an enemy.  How did God's grace for you play into your wrestling with these feelings?

3.  Have you ever been witness to someone being forgiven and/or offered healing?  Maybe from addiction, hurting another person, etc...  What did you feel inside when you experienced seeing them healed or made whole or restored again?

4.  Where do you usually place yourself in the story of the landowner?  As you think about God's grace, does this story move you to be even more amazed by God's generosity?

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Sunday 09-13-2020

15th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links​​

• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

• Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here  they are also located below today's Sunday Worship video

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• We are Participating in the Stanwood Camano Historic Site Tours 

• September 18th-19th, 2020

• For more Details Click  Here

The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

1. What makes forgiveness so hard to offer at times?

2.  If you are holding forgiveness from another, what is holding you back from offering it?  How is that holding it back affecting you?

3.  7 is a perfect number in Hebrew thinking and in Jesus day.  Jesus tells Peter to forgive "77 times," essentially meaning always.  How do you imagine Peter responded to the answer of Jesus?

4.  How does our human struggle with forgiveness help you see the extravagance and grace of God's forgiveness?

5.  Is there a time you offered forgiveness and the person received it with humility or joy?  How did that feel for you and how did it affect your relationship moving forward?  Have you been given forgiveness you asked for from another person?  How did that feel for you and how did it affect your relationship moving forward?

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Sunday 09-06-2020

14th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links

• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

• Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here  they are also located below today's Sunday Worship video

The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

1.  Why do you think step one in our Gospel reading of going directly to the person that hurt us first and talking to them one on one before saying a word to anyone else is so hard?

2.  What are the dangers to the community when we don't follow this first step and instead first share our frustrations with others first?

3.  Have you seen this guidance from Jesus used first hand?  What was difficult about it and what was helpful about it?

4.  The goal of our Matthew text is always reconciliation.  Does all reconciliation look the same?  If not, what are the possible options that reconciliation might look like?

5.  Paul reminds us in our Romans text that "Loving your neighbor" sums up the whole of the commandments.  Is that how you think about living out the commandments?  How does viewing the commandments in this way change your perspective on following them?  Or does it not change anything in regards to following the commandments for you?

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Sunday 08-30-2020

13th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links

• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

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Sunday 08-23-2020

12th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links

• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

• Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here  they are also located below today's Sunday Worship video

The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

1.  Where do you see God in your living?

2.  How does one worship blessings verses worshiping God?

3.  Does the church value some parts of the body of Christ more than others?  If yes, how so?  How does this hurt the church?

4.  When you think about the various people at CLC that you know, write down a list of the gifts you recognize in these people.  Pray for each of them

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Sunday 08-16-2020

11th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links

• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

• Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here  they are also located below today's Sunday Worship video

The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

1.  What traditions or rituals have been important to you?  Why are they important to you?

2.  How have those rituals helped you express your faith?

3.  How have those rituals gotten you stuck in such a way you aren't open to new rituals or ways of living out your faith?

4.  Why do you think Jesus was non responsive to the woman and then seemed to dismiss her because she was not of the "lost house of Israel"?

5.  Pastor Scott suggested that this Canaanite woman may have taught Jesus something or at least reminded him of the bigger picture of his ministry.  Do you think that is possible?

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Sunday 08-09-2020

10th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links

• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

• Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here  they are also located below today's Sunday Worship video

The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

1.  Has there ever been a time you shared a gift of yours,  but felt like it wasn't as important and someone else's?  Why did you feel it wasn't as important?

2.  When did you take a big risk faith wise and how did it turn out?

3.  Has there been a time in the past where you felt like you should have taken a risk and didn't?  Did that have any effect on how you approached the next time you felt called to take a  risk?  How so? 

3.  If you were Peter, what do you think you would have done had you seen Jesus coming toward you walking on the water?

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Sunday 08-02-2020

9th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links

• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

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Sunday 07-26-2020

8th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links

• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

• Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here  they are also located below today's Sunday Worship video

The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

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1.  Having listened to all these parables saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like..."  What would you say the kingdom of heaven is like?

2.  When it comes to living out your faith would you say you see yourself more as a mustard seed in size or the plant that comes from the mustard seed, "When it grows it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches?"

3.  As you look at your faith journey, can you name a time when you felt moved to take a risk in connection with your faith, but didn't and later on wish you would have?  Did that change how you handled an opportunity to take a risk in the future?

4.  Can you think of a time that you DID take a risk in your faith journey and saw the fruit it bore?  What gave you courage to take the risk? 

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Sunday 07-19-2020

7th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links

• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

• Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here  they are also located below today's Sunday Worship video

A Special Message From Danny Edwards-Luce

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The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

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1.  How do you see our current world as wheat and how do you see it as weed?

2.  How comfortable are you with Jesus telling the servants to let the weeds and wheat grow together?  How comfortable are you with Luther's statement, "We are simultaneously saint and sinner?  What are the weaknesses and strengths you see in this saying?

3.  In the sermon pastor pointed out the connection of the Greek word for the phrase "let both  them grow together" is also tied to the word "forgiveness."  If at some level Jesus is saying to be patient and forgive the weeds, what do you think about that?

4.  A the beginning of announcements pastor reminded us that "God is responsible for deciding who the wheat and words are, not us."  What do you think about that statement?  Does it give you any freedom when hearing that said?  Does it bring you fear?

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Sunday 07-12-2020

6th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links​

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• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

• Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here   

         they are also located below today's Sunday Worship video

The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

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I focused on the sower this week and the lavishness of the sower in scattering the seed, God's word, but there are many aspects of the seed and soil in this text as well and how God's Word takes root.

The Kingdom of heaven, says Matthew, belongs to the poor in spirit and the persecuted (Matthew 5:3,10), it is governed by humility (18:3; 19:14) and demonstrated in righteousness (5:10, 19-20; 6:33), which is to do the will of God (7:21). 

As we ponder the parable of the sower, this invites us to reflect on a number of questions:

1.  What does it mean to be good soil, prepared to receive the word of the kingdom?

2.  How do we assess what kind of shape our soil is in?

3.  What would we need to do for the seed to be able to take root in our bodies and souls?

4.  How will we know if this is happening?

5.  And how might we nurture good soil in those around us?

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Sunday 07-05-2020

5th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links​

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• Today's Drive-in Worship bulletin Here

• Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here   

         they are also located below today's Sunday Worship video

The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

1.  When you Hear Jesus' words, "come to me everyone and I will give you rest," what image of Jesus comes to mind?  How is Jesus offering rest?

2.  A yoke often connects two together.  How do you see Jesus yoking together with you during this time and helping you face life's realities?

3.  When you see division in our country, how does your faith call you to respond for all people?  How are you currently responding verbally, with your social media posts, and actions to people that don't agree with you?  How does this reflect Christ to others?

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Sunday 06-28-2020

4th  Sunday after Pentecost

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Announcement Information Links

• Congregational Letter from Council Here

• Drive-in Worship Information Here

• Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here   

         they are also located below today's Sunday Worship video

The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

1. What do you think the disciples were feeling when Jesus said he was sending them out as sheep amidst wolves and not everyone would welcome them?  How would you feel in the same situation?

2. Is it easy for you to be sent to share the good news?  What makes it easy for you?  If it's not easy for you, what makes it difficult?

3. During this Covid -19 time period and all the other realities going in in our world, where have you found strength?  What is your main source for that strength?  How much time have you spent with the news, the Bible, prayer, conversation with others in working through these recent months? 

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Sunday 06-21-2020

3rd  Sunday after Pentecost

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Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here and they are located below today's Sunday Worship video.  

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The following questions are connected to Sunday's gospel reading for you to use in your home or if you are joining up to five other people to watch worship and discuss the questions

1.What part of this reading is hardest for you to hear?  Why?

2.What are the Roman Empires, religious empires and even communal empires present in our world today? What is their core message and way of working? How are you a part of them? How does the gospel nudge against these if at all? 

3.While swords certainly inflict damage and destruction, they can also release from bondage. Do you hear any kind of releasing in Jesus words in this text?

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Sunday 06-14-2020

2nd Sunday after Pentecost

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Questions of Reflection for Sermon are Here

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Sunday 06-07-2020

Trinity Sunday Worship Service

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Pentecost Sunday

Showing Support by Wearing Red for Pentecost - Fred Trolio,  Ralph & Mary Powers,  Marilyn Smith, John & Linda Leque

"Today's service was filmed and edited before the events of violence and destruction that have erupted in many cities across the nation.  We add this situation to the other prayers in the service and ask God's Spirit to come and blow among us to bring life out of that which destroys life, physically, emotionally and spiritually."

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Sunday 05-31-2020

Pentecost Sunday Worship Service

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Sunday 05-24-2020

7th Sunday of Easter Worship Service

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Sunday 05-17-2020

6th Sunday of Easter Worship Service

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Sunday 05-10-2020

5th Sunday of Easter Worship Service

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Sunday 05-03-2020

4th Sunday of Easter Worship Service

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*Please enjoy Zoe's video on the right for the prelude.

*Please stay tuned until the end for the announcements.

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Sunday 04-26-2020

3rd Sunday of Easter Worship Service

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*Please enjoy Zoe's video on the right for the prelude.

*Please stay tuned until the end for the announcements.

Sunday 04-19-2020

2nd Sunday of Easter Worship Service

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*Please enjoy Zoe's video on the right for the prelude.

*Please stay tuned until the end for the announcements.

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Easter Sunday

Sunday 04-11-2020

Easter Sunday Worship Service

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*Announcements are at the end of the service. 

*A special Easter music playlist can be found at the link to the right of the video 

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Prelude/Postlude

Special Extended Music Playlist 

Click Here

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Good Friday 

Friday 04-10-2020

Good Friday Cluster Worship Service can be found at the link below

https://freebornchurch.org/wp/sermons/ 

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* This service is hosted by Freeborn Lutheran Church.

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Maundy Thursday

Thursday 04-09-2020

Maundy Thursday Worship Service

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*Please enjoy Zoe's video on the right for the prelude.

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Palm/Passion Sunday

Sunday 04-05-2020

Palm Sunday Worship Service

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*Please enjoy Zoe's video on the right for the prelude.

*Announcements are in a separate video under Zoe's prelude.

Announcements

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Sunday 03-29-2020

5th Sunday in Lent Worship Service

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*Please enjoy Zoe's video on the right for the prelude.

*Please stay tuned until the end for the announcements.

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Sunday 03-22-2020

4th Sunday in Lent Worship Service

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*Please stay tuned until the end for the announcements.

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Sunday 03-15-2020

3rd Sunday in Lent Worship Service

Photo Referenced in Sermon