October 4, 2020
Texts: Exodus 12:1-13; 13:1-8; Luke 22:14-20 Subject: The Passover; The Last Supper Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost; Oct. 4, 2020, Online; Reformation Lutheran Church, Las Vegas, NV Pastor Jason Adams
October 4, 2020
Texts: Exodus 12:1-13; 13:1-8; Luke 22:14-20 Subject: The Passover; The Last Supper Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost; Oct. 4, 2020, Online; Reformation Lutheran Church, Las Vegas, NV Pastor Jason Adams
September 27, 2020
When the trauma of past generations catches up with us, and we become afraid of being left out, and we are cut off from the ones who have been entrusted to us, we can feel the promises of the past slipping away, we can feel the dreams within us dying. The impulse is to give up. Why would we seek to restore relationships with the ones who have hurt us? Why would we choose to remain in conversation with the people with whom we disagree? Why would we continue to fight for something that seems so out of reach? “The only way out is through.” We’ve all been through a lot. For our relationships, for our families, for our church, for our nation, the only way out of our problems is to do the work, to pick up the phone, to connect to each other, to have grace-filled conversations about our differences, disagreements, and disappointments. We have been give a command to do to others as we would have them do to us. It’s not too much to ask for us to be the ones who break through cultural norms, to rise above challenges, and to trust in the power of God to bring good from the setbacks we face.
September 13, 2020
Texts: Genesis 2:4b, 15-17, 3:1-8; Luke 11:1-4 Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost; Sept. 13, 2020, Online; Reformation Lutheran Church, Las Vegas, NV; God’s Work our Hands Sunday
September 7, 2020
Texts: Second Corinthians 5:1-21; Mark 8:22-26 Living by Faith Theme: Faith Nevertheless Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost; Sept. 6, 2020, Online; Reformation Lutheran Church, Las Vegas, NV; Pastor Jason Adams
August 23, 2020
Texts: Second Corinthians 2:1-10; Matt. 18:21-22 Forgiveness/Seventy Seven times Theme: UNStuck Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost; Aug 23, 2020, Online; Reformation Lutheran Church, Las Vegas, NV; Pastor Jason Adams
August 16, 2020
Texts: Second Corinthians 1:1-11; John 14:25-27 Consolation from God Theme: For a Reason Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost; Aug 16, 2020, Online; Reformation Lutheran Church, Las Vegas, NV; Pastor Jason Adams
August 2, 2020
Texts: Esther 1:1-22 Vashti Deposed Theme: Who’s in Charge Here? Ninth Sunday after Pentecost; Aug 2, 2020, Online; Reformation Lutheran Church, Las Vegas, NV; Pastor Jason Adams
July 26, 2020
Texts: Ruth 1:14-18; 3:1-15 Subject: Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor Eighth Sunday after Pentecost; July 26, 2020, Online; Reformation Lutheran Church, Las Vegas, NV; Pastor Jason Adams
July 19, 2020
Texts: Ruth 2:1-20; 4:9-17 Subject: Ruth Meets Boaz, Marriage of Ruth and Boaz Seventh Sunday after Pentecost; July 19, 2020, Online; Reformation Lutheran Church, Las Vegas, NV; Pastor Jason Adams
July 5, 2020
White reflects that so many of our relationships have been broken, in part because we have forgotten that we are not independent, but interdependent – we have forgotten that we belong to each other. We are no longer curious about each other, like the two young lovers in this love poem, but jump to judgement, and make those different from us into something less than human.