Aug 30, 2024 | Season after Pentecost 2024, Worship
Welcome to Lutheran Church of the Master for the 15th Sunday after Pentecost! Jesus protests against human customs being given the weight of divine law, while the essence of God’s law is ignored. True uncleanness comes not from external things, but from the intentions...
Aug 23, 2024 | Season after Pentecost 2024, Worship
Welcome to Lutheran Church of the Master for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost! In today’s gospel many people take offense at Jesus’ invitation to eat his flesh and drink his blood; even many of Jesus’ disciples peel off. This is the backdrop in John’s gospel for...
Aug 15, 2024 | Season after Pentecost 2024, Worship
Welcome to Lutheran Church of the Master for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost! Wisdom prepares a feast, sets her table, and invites all to come and eat her bread and drink her wine. The first chapter of John’s gospel owes much to the biblical tradition that imagined...
Aug 8, 2024 | Season after Pentecost 2024, Worship
Welcome to Lutheran Church of the Master for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost! Jesus says that the bread he gives for the life of the world is his flesh, and whoever eats this bread has eternal life now and will be raised on the last day. In Ephesians Paul tells us...
Aug 1, 2024 | Season after Pentecost 2024, Worship
Welcome to Lutheran Church of the Master for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost! Apparently not satisfied by Jesus’ feeding of thousands, some who were there press him for a sign of his power; perhaps it is daily manna they want. As always in John’s gospel when people...
Jul 27, 2024 | Season after Pentecost 2024, Worship
Welcome to Lutheran Church of the Master for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost! Today is the first of five Sundays with gospel readings from John 6, the first four of which focus on Jesus as bread of life. Today Jesus feeds thousands of people with five loaves and two...
