Hi, Everybody: This Sunday, April 5th, is Palm Sunday. Feel free to parade around your neighborhood eating nachos and carrying a palm branch. Hope the neighbors don’t call the police. So, we have a new shelter-in-place order from the Alameda County Public Health Department that extends through May 3rd. It is stricter and more detailed with paragraphs, […]
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Hello, Words, smells, sounds and pictures can cause us to stop in our tracks. The picture above is one such picture. As I was doing research for last week’s sermon, I found it. I stopped immediately. I read the accompanying article. I was wiped out for the remainder of the afternoon. The article is on
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Happy April Fools’ Day, dear Fools of Christ, What’s the funniest way you were ever fooled on April 1st? Or how did you fool someone? When I was a kid, I was always in awe and excitement alike for this day. I prepared for it to fool my friends and family. And I usually forgot
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DEVOTIONS From Pastor Barbara, Holy Redeemer Lutheran Church, Newark, CA MARCH 30, 2020 –Dear Church,Then the LORD said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and each day the people shall go out and gather enough for that day. 1 Exodus 16:4 Does anybody else feel like we’ve been sheltered in
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Service bulletin Please click here for a bulletin to follow along and participate in the worship service. Full worship service Choir anthem Children’s time Click here for a Children’s Time activity sheet. Click here for a Children’s Time coloring sheet. Bible reading and Sermon only Musical selections
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Reprinted with permission from kidsforpeaceglobal.org/COVID-19/ Put Our Peace Pledge Into Action I pledge to use my words to speak in a kind way. Sing a happy song! Go curbside caroling with your family; create a music video and share far and wide; sing from your window like the Italians, or simply sing along with the radio. List all
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Hi, Everybody: Yes, I’m still working from home (although the siren song of the television is awfully hard to resist). I hope the only way you’re going stir crazy is with a spoon while trying out some new recipes (i.e. cream of whatever-the-store-had-left). This Sunday, March 29, is the 5th Sunday in Lent. Once again there
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Peace Be With You! According to medical authorities, your heart will beat about 100,000 times today, and every day. In the coming year, your heart will beat approximately 35 million times! And during your lifetime, your heart will pump about 1 million barrels of blood. How easily we can take the heart for granted. When
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March 25, 2020 Good morning dear Saints of the Church, What are the burdens you have been carrying during the last weeks? Whose burdens are you taking upon yourself? The last days have felt like a month for me. And it’s only Wednesday. So much change, so much information. So many thoughts about how everyone
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On this Fourth Sunday of Lent, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church has created a video of the full service, for those who wish to participate during this time of socially isolating due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our first video shows the entire service, led by Pastor Tim Huff and congregant Carmen Blair, who also leads the
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