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Fair
“Fair” Matthew 20:1-16 Pastor Todd Buegler Trinity Lutheran Church September 20-21, 2014 Grace and peace to you, from God our Creator and from Jesus, who is love and grace. Amen. In college, I worked as an audio technician in the school’s media services department. We set up and ran sound and video systems for everything…
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Worthy?
It’s been a busy couple of weeks with the “Trinity: Next Steps” process beginning, but I’m excited to be able to get back to taking a look at some of the great questions that came in a few weeks ago as a part of my sermon on the power of faith-questions. The question we’re taking…
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God’s Work, Our Hands
“Just as our neighbor is in need and lacks that in which we abound, so we were in need before God and lacked his mercy. Hence, as our heavenly Father has in Christ freely come to our aid, we also ought freely to help our neighbor through our body and its works, and each one should become…
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Reset Moments
“Reset Moments”Matthew 18:15-20Pastor Todd BueglerTrinity Lutheran Church September 6-7, 2014 Grace and peace to you, from God our Creator and from Jesus, who brings life. Amen. There is a button on most of my electronic devices that I both love and hate. It is the “reset” button. I’m sure many of you are familiar…
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Praying for Ourselves
Last weekend in worship, as a part of the sermon, I spoke about the power of good questions, and how they can draw us deeper into our relationship with God. I asked people that were at worship that morning to write down their good questions, for two reasons: It would help me get to know…
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Slack
I often listen to podcasts when I walk in the morning. It’s a great way for me to get my mind ‘moving’ a bit. Yesterday, I listened to an interview with Elizabeth Eaton, who is the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. I have a lot of admiration for Bishop Eaton. She…
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The Questions that Matter
“The Questions that Matter”Matthew 16:13-20Pastor Todd BueglerTrinity Lutheran ChurchAugust 23-24, 2014 Grace and peace to you, from God our Creator and from Jesus, who brings life. Amen. “What do I want to be when I grow up?” That was the question. That’s what I was wondering. I was 21 years old and it was…
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Like Rain
In something like 36 hours, we got 4 inches of rain. And it’s like I could almost hear my lawn giving a long, low groan of relief. it had been so dry for the last few weeks that my lawn kind of “crackled” as I walked over it. In bare patches, I could see little…
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Whatever It Takes
Matthew 15:21-28 Pastor Todd Buegler Trinity Lutheran Church August 16-17, 2014 Grace and peace to you, from God our Creator and from Jesus, who brings healing. Amen. I was between worship services, and was chatting with someone in the Narthex when one of the ushers came over to me and said “Pastor Todd, your wife,…
Test Driving Theology
Sermons and thoughts from Pastor Todd