Bloghardt's Reflector

St. Matthew 18:6 – Pentecost 17A
St. Mark Lutheran Church, Conroe, TX
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In the name of Jesus. Amen. Would all the children please stand up. Everyone who is a young person.. No, senior youth, you don't have to stand...

Dear children of God, Jesus says today that if you want to understand how to enter heaven look at the children of our congregation. Humble yourself and be like them. They are full of faith and confidence in God's grace and goodness. No unbelief or fretting!

Why should they? Jesus lived His life for them. Then, He died the death they deserved. How could they doubt, for they sing “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible told me so.”

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In the Name of Jesus. Amen. I love games. I began playing the first Massive Multiplayer Roleplay game (MMROPG) Ultima Online, while in seminary. The game provided a virtual world, economy, monsters, spells, and orcs! After that I tried my hand at Everquest and “Evercrack 2”. What can I say? I just love games with orcs in them.

Now, virtual worlds are everywhere. From the SIMs to World of Warcraft (WOW). That WOW game has the added benefit of playing against both orcs and trolls! You just can't go wrong there!

St. Matthew 16:16 – Pentecost 15A – 2008
St. Mark Lutheran Church, Conroe, TX
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In the name of Jesus, the Son of the Living God. Amen. Just when mothers were about to go mental, the Lord has rescued them – or maybe he saved their kids. School's back. School supplies, regular schedules, those cool binders that work the first day then don't work again, papers, assignments, and exams.

Today too, questions from Jesus. A question with eternal significance... “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?”

And there were lots of answers. “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

The world has some answers to that question today too. The Muslims and Jews agree on at least one thing: They both say that Jesus isn't God. The JW's and Mormons have Jesus being man, but something less than God.