Pastor Hans Fiene
Matins Devotion: December 19, 2022
Revelation 7 For many of us, sorrow haunts the Christmas season. Or, to be a bit more liturgically accurate, it haunts the waning days of...
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MATINS DEVOTIONS
Vicar Matt Doebler
- Dec 16, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: December 16, 2022
Revelation 4 Here, in the fourth chapter of Revelation John is writing furiously trying to describe to us the wonder of this breathtaking...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Dec 15, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotional: December 15, 2022
Revelation 3 When Jesus tells the church in Laodicea: “I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Dec 14, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotional: December 14, 2022
Revelation 2 Yesterday, we noted that the book of Revelation takes its name from the word apocalypse—which means to take the things that...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Dec 13, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotional: December 13, 2022
Revelation 1 Maybe I’m getting a little old fashioned, but I really miss the days where we had to watch movies on DVDs. It’s not so much...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Dec 12, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: December 12, 2022
Jude 1-25 Near the beginning of the epic novel Lonesome Dove, we’re introduced to a character named July Johnson—a quiet man who wants...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- Dec 9, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: December 9, 2022
1 John 3 When zookeepers take in an orphaned bear cub, before they introduce the lost little guy to his adoptive mother, they slather...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- Dec 8, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: December 8, 2022
1 John 2:15-29 Why isn’t the world better? Why aren’t things more peaceful and anxiety-free? Why are people so ugly and cruel? Why isn’t...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- Dec 7, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: December 7, 2022
Isaiah 24:1-13 In the chapters of Isaiah leading up to our reading for this morning, God is speaking words of judgment against Egypt and...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- Dec 7, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: December 6, 2022
2 Peter 3 When you look out at a world of perversion and cruelty and God isn’t raining sulfur down from heaven, it’s easy to despair....
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- Dec 5, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: December 5, 2022
Isaiah 11 When I was growing up, there was a certain young girl my age at church who always asked the same question in Sunday school,...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Dec 2, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: December 2, 2022
1 Peter 4 Did you know that over half of all flood-related drowning-related deaths are complexly avoidable? That over half of them occur...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Dec 1, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: December 1, 2022
Isaiah 7:10-8:8 The kingdom of Judah was in crisis mode. The Assyrians were invading. And to the north, the kings of Israel and Syria...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Nov 30, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: November 30, 2022
Romans 10:8-18 Although belief and confession can be distinguished, they can never and should never be separated. That’s Paul’s point in...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Nov 29, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: November 29, 2022
1 Peter 2:1-12 Is every Christian a priest? Yes. That’s the clear teaching of Scripture. Peter says that every believer belongs to a...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Nov 28, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: November 28, 2022
1 Peter 1:13-25 Are we living in the last days? Well, these days it seems like everyone's got an opinion on that issue. We hear of...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- Nov 23, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: November 23, 2022
Daniel 3 Nebuchadnezzar has a short memory. Yesterday’s reading ended with Nebuchadnezzar praising Daniel’s God as “God of all gods and...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- Nov 22, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: November 22, 2022
Daniel 2:24-49 “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” This is a quote attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte and it’s a...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- Nov 21, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: November 21, 2022
Daniel 2:1-23 Nebuchadnezzar is a profoundly accomplished man, a man who has used his strength and brutality to accomplish great and...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Nov 18, 2022
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: November 18, 2022
Matthew 27:33-56 Often, when God allows suffering and cross, pain and sorrow, to come unexpectedly upon us the devil will seize this...
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