December 7, 2025, Advent 2 Worship Video

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The season of Advent is four Sundays of preparation for the coming of Christ. In today's reading from Isaiah, the prophet gives us a beautiful vision of what the world will be like when the Prince of Peace, God's own Son, comes to make all things new. In this sermon, Pastor Paige explores the hope of the Advent season and God's promise to be at work, even when we can't see it.

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November 30, 2025, Advent 1 Worship Video

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The season of Advent is four Sundays of preparation for the coming of Christ. This means, of course, getting ready for celebrating his birth at Christmas, but it also looks ahead to his second coming to make all things new and right. In this sermon, Pastor Eric looks at what the coming of Jesus means for us, and for the world.

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"Something Better Than Tradition" (November 26, 2025, Thanksgiving Eve Worship Video)

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The gospel reading for Thanksgiving Eve this year is from John 6:25-35, a story from right after Jesus fed over 5,000 people with a little bit of fish and bread. The recipients of this gift were focused on the traditions God established with their ancestors, instead of on Jesus who gave them the gifts of God in the present moment. Pastor Paige explores how Jesus is present with us today and how he invites us to look to him to satisfy the hungers of our bodies, minds, and souls.

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"You Are Enough" (November 23, 2025, Christ the King Sunday Worship Video)

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Christ the King Sunday is the last Sunday in the Church calendar year. It's a good day to go back to the fundamental question, "Who am I?" in light of our faith in Jesus. Our lessons, especially from Colossians 1:11-20, help us ground our identity in Jesus' sacrifice on the cross for us. In this sermon, Pastor Paige helps us remember that Jesus bears the scars of the cross in his resurrected body, even as he reigns as our heavenly king. We don't have to wonder who we are or if we're doing enough for God to love us. All we have to do is look to Christ our King and to his wounds, and know that thanks to Jesus, we are healed and saved, forever.

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"A Promised Healing" (November 16, 2025, Pentecost 23 Worship Video)

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“The day is coming, burning like an oven” (Malachi 4:1). As we approach the end of the Church calendar year, our readings focus on “the end times.” Talk about “the last days” often sounds like an ominous threat, and the words of the Old Testament prophet Malachi come across that way at first. But in this sermon, Pastor Eric centers us in the promise that God never changes, and God is love. The coming of Christ is not a warning about our destruction in the future, but a gift of healing that begins now by faith, and will come to fullness when Christ comes again. We hope you are encouraged and challenged!

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"Who Are You Searching For?" (November 9, 2025, All Saints' Sunday Worship Video)

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All Saints' Sunday allows us to anchor our faith and our lives in Jesus' promise of the resurrection to eternal life. As we hear the names of those who have joined the church victorious in the past year, we give thanks for their lives and all the ways they blessed us. In this sermon, Pastor Paige highlights Jesus' and Paul's teachings from Luke 6:17-31 and Ephesians 1:11-23. These readings help us learn how to live as disciples of the risen Jesus who bring God's love and grace, as well as glimpses of God’s heavenly kingdom, to our neighbors.

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November 2, 2025 Worship Video

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This week, we are blessed to have Pastor Judy Moller-Gavlick as our guest pastor! Next week, we will have a delayed observance of All Saints’ Sunday.

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Confirmation Day: You Do Not Walk Alone - October 26, 2025, Reformation Sunday Worship Video

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On Confirmation Sunday, we all get the chance to remember our baptism! We affirm our baptismal faith in Jesus, who died and rose again to give us abundant life and eternal life. We are celebrating Reformation Sunday as well. We give thanks for the essentials of our faith that Martin Luther highlighted for the church and the world: God's Word Alone, Faith Alone, Grace Alone, and Christ Alone. In this sermon, Pastor Paige explores these gifts of Confirmation and the Reformation, to help all of us live out our faith in Jesus more fully and freely, for the sake of our neighbors.

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Rekindle the Gift: Commitment Sunday - October 19, 2025, 19th Sunday after Pentecost Worship Video

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"When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?" It is a haunting question. But it is also an invitation: will we trust Jesus and follow him in lives of divine purpose? On this Commitment Sunday, we make estimates of giving for next year, investing in the mission of Christ in this time and place. Our readings today are not about money. They are about faith and mission. This is what stewardship is about: our faith, the Holy Spirit's call to mission, and the concrete commitments that flow from them. Join us to be encouraged and challenged to take the next step of faith in your life!

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“Rekindle the Gift, Revive our Gratitude” October 12, 2025, 18th Sunday after Pentecost Worship Video

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In today’s reading from 2 Kings 5:1-15, we meet Namaan, a commander of a foreign army and a reluctant recipient of a miracle of healing. In this story, it’s not only Namaan’s health that improves, but also his attitude toward God. He goes from being insulted that God’s prophet tells him to do a simple thing in order to be healed to wanting to give that same prophet a gift when he is made whole. In this sermon, Pastor Paige asks listeners to reflect on the gift of salvation they’ve received from God. She invites them to “rekindle the gift” of faith in Jesus and all that he has done for them, during our current stewardship season, and always.

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"Rekindle the Gift" (October 5, 2025, 17th Sunday after Pentecost Worship Video)

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With today’s service, we begin our annual stewardship focus. In a season of contention and strife, we may be tempted, as individuals and as a congregation, to shrink back, be quiet, and keep our faith to ourselves. This was the situation both the Old Testament prophet Habakkuk and the New Testament leader Timothy faced. But in challenging times, they were encouraged to step out boldly in faith, not as “culture warriors,” but as courageous witnesses to the saving power of Jesus. In this sermon, Pastor Eric challenges us to rekindle that kind of faith in our lives, so that we can not only receive, but also share, all the saving love and power Jesus has given us.

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“Who Can Cross the Chasm?” September 28, 2025, 16th Sunday after Pentecost Worship Video

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The parable for today from Luke 16:19-31 is vivid and powerful. There are two men on opposite sides of a chasm. One is wrapped in the love and security of our ancestor in the faith, Abraham. The other is in torment. Their positions in the parable are the exact opposite of what they experienced in life. Pastor Paige connects this parable to another part of our worship service, Confession & Forgiveness. She asks listeners to consider what actions they are leaving “undone” and what chasms have started forming in their lives as a result. On the other hand, she asks what they could accomplish, for the sake of our neighbors, if they tapped into the love and grace that Jesus freely gives us.

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“One, for All” September 21, 2025, 15th Sunday after Pentecost Worship Video

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“All religions are really the same.” “They’re all just different paths up the same mountain.” Is that really the case? In our reading from 1Timothy 2:1-7, the Apostle Paul claims there is “one God” and “one mediator between God and humanity.” Why does this seem so out of place in our culture? Can it really be good news? In this sermon, Pastor Eric will encourage us to trust this one, unique, particular Savior, who is the one who gave himself “for all.”

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"The Gift of God's Mercy" (September 14, 2025, 14th Sunday after Pentecost Worship Service)

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However close you feel to Jesus today, or how far, the truth is that Jesus is always seeking after you. You are God’s beloved child. In our gospel reading from Luke 15:1-10, Jesus tells two parables that show how wide his welcome and his mercy are toward everyone. Not only does Jesus welcome sinners, he also promises that when sinners repent, heaven throws a party! In this sermon, Pastor Paige invites hearers to open their eyes to the wideness of God’s mercy and the ways we are called to share God’s mercy and love with others.

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"What's It Worth?" (September 7, 2025, 13th Sunday after Pentecost Worship Service)

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The book of Philemon is incredibly short (we will hear most if it as today’s second reading!) and incredibly “passive aggressive.” Why? The Apostle Paul is giving Philemon some very challenging instructions, and we can tell he is trying to make sure Philemon gets the hint. This command-that-isn’t-phrased-as-a-command from Paul is a living example of what Jesus talks about in our Gospel reading, the need to “count the cost” and the fact that following him will always lead us to the place of decision and sacrifice. Pastor Eric will challenge us: What sacrifice are you facing? What is the cost? A faith that has no cost will not lead us to the place where Jesus calls us to be.

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"A City That Lasts" (August 31, 2025, 12th Sunday after Pentecost Worship Service)

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“We have no abiding city,” Hebrews tells us. This is a way of telling us that when we try to create our own way of life, apart from God, seeking our own security and comfort, usually at the expense of others, it is doomed to failure. In our readings from Hebrews and Luke, we find invitations to a new way of life, one that will abide forever because it is created by the death-defeating grace of Jesus. Pastor Eric challenges us to live by the rules of this city, and find a life of hope, truth, and joy that can only be enjoyed when it is shared with others.

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"Lift Your Head, Look Up, Praise God" (August 24, 2025, 11th Sunday after Pentecost Worship Service)

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In today's gospel reading, Luke 13:10-17, Jesus heals a woman in the synagogue. Everyone witnessing this healing is surprised, not to mention the woman herself. In this sermon, Pastor Paige shows listeners how Jesus’ not only healed her physically, but he also changed her perspective. He does the same with the religious leaders who opposed him for healing someone on the Sabbath. How is Jesus calling you to expand, change, or heal your perspective on your life, your faith, your relationships, your community, or the world?

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“100% for Jesus” August 17, 2025 10th Sunday after Pentecost Worship Video

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In today's gospel reading, Luke 12:49-56, Jesus challenges us to examine our commitment to being his disciples. In this sermon, Pastor Paige unpacks his words. They can be hard to hear, even though they paint an accurate picture of what following Jesus entails. Pastor Paige reminds listeners to hear Jesus' call to devote our lives to him in light of the commitment he first made to us, through his cross.

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"What If God *Could* Be Trusted?" (August 10, 2025, 9th Sunday after Pentecost Worship Service)

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In today's reading from Luke 12:22-34, Jesus challenges and invites us to trust in God's promises more deeply. Pastor Eric will help us to see what this could look like in our lives, and how we can step into that kind of trust.

Please use the button above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service.* We invite you to use the “Supporting Reformation’s Mission” button to invest in our ministry. At that link, you will find ways to make online donations to provide the resources needed for our church to keep on reaching out with the love of Jesus, as well as a survey you can print out and return to church about ways you can become more involved in what God is doing at Reformation. Thank you for your generous support!

*We have a new bulletin format this month. The first pages of the bulletin you download will have the parts of the service that repeat every week. The final pages of the bulletin have the new “Sunday Booklet” with the specific readings and hymns for this Sunday. The weekly church calendar, announcements, and Parish Worker names are in the final pages of the bulletin as well. We are making this change as an experiment to be better stewards of our resources and paper.

August 3, 2025, 8th Sunday after Pentecost Worship Video

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Today's readings deal with "the rich" and "the greedy." But how do we define "rich" or "greedy?" Many people talk as if wealth and abundance themselves are evil. But what if the problem isn't in our bank accounts, but in our souls? In today's sermon, Pastor Eric helps us see how greed can be a reality for all of us, and how Jesus can create true generosity in our hearts.

Please use the button above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service.* We invite you to use the “Supporting Reformation’s Mission” button to invest in our ministry. At that link, you will find ways to make online donations to provide the resources needed for our church to keep on reaching out with the love of Jesus, as well as a survey you can print out and return to church about ways you can become more involved in what God is doing at Reformation. Thank you for your generous support!

*We have a new bulletin format this month. The first pages of the bulletin you download will have the parts of the service that repeat every week. The final pages of the bulletin have the new “Sunday Booklet” with the specific readings and hymns for this Sunday. The weekly church calendar, announcements, and Parish Worker names are in the final pages of the bulletin as well. We are making this change as an experiment to be better stewards of our resources and paper.