Matins Devotions

Vicar Matt Doebler

Mar 31
3 min

Matins Devotion: March 31, 2023

Exodus 5:1-6:1 In this morning’s reading, Moses and Aaron go to Pharaoh and speak God’s demand that his people be given the freedom to...

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Vicar Matt Doebler

Mar 30
3 min

Matins Devotion: March 30, 2023

Exodus 4:19-31; Mark 15:16-32 For all its strangeness, (what with talk of circumcision and bridegrooms of blood) this interlude between...

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Vicar Matt Doebler

Mar 29
2 min

Matins Devotion: March 29, 2023

Exodus 4:1-18 In our reading from Exodus, we find the Lord reassuring and giving comfort to Moses that his mission to liberate Israel...

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Vicar Matt Doebler

Mar 28
3 min

Matins Devotion: March 28, 2023

Exodus 2:23-3:33 The call of Moses is a strange story if you think about it. Here Moses is on the backside of the desert. He’s now...

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Vicar Matt Doebler

Mar 27
2 min

Matins Devotions: March 27, 2023

Exodus 2:1-22 Pharaoh had just ordered the slaughter of all male Hebrew children by casting them into the waters of the Nile River in...

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Vicar Matt Doebler

Mar 24
3 min

Matins Devotion: March 24, 2023

Genesis 46: 1-5; 47:1-31 For Jacob, this journey down into Egypt was bittersweet. For over twenty years, he had believed his beloved son...

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Vicar Matt Doebler

Mar 23
3 min

Matins Devotion: March 23, 2023

Genesis 45: 1-20, 24-28 Today we read the climax of the Joseph story. The big reveal has happened. The masked Egyptian has unmasked...

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Pastor Hans Fiene

Mar 22
2 min

Matins Devotion: March 22, 2023

Genesis 44:1-18, 32-34 Once again, in our reading from Genesis, Judah shows that he is a Christian. He shows how his heart and his mind...

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Pastor Hans Fiene

Mar 21
2 min

Matins Devotion: March 21, 2023

Genesis 43:1-28 In yesterday’s devotion, I talked about how Jacob’s grief has made him irrational and despondent. His sorrow over the...

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Pastor Hans Fiene

Mar 21
2 min

Matins Devotion: March 20, 2023

Genesis 42 Grief has a nasty habit of making people crazy, irrational and despondent. We see that with Jacob in our Old Testament reading...

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Vicar Matt Doebler

Mar 17
2 min

Matins Devotion: March 17, 2023

Genesis 40 Ancient Egyptian religion placed a high value on dreams and their interpretations. The ancient Egyptians believed that sleep...

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Vicar Matt Doebler

Mar 16
2 min

Matins Devotion: March 16, 2023

Genesis 39 It’s easy to miss the point of this episode in the life of Joseph. To see it as a kind of Old Testament soap opera starring a...

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Vicar Matt Doebler

Mar 15
3 min

Matins Devotion: March 15, 2023

Genesis 37 What is the special coat that Jacob makes Joseph? The one that we so famously call the “coat of many colors?” And why does it...

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Vicar Matt Doebler

Mar 14
2 min

Matins Devotion: March 14, 2023

Genesis 35:1-29 So much death. So much sorrow. So much fear. So much uncertainty. We see all of these things swirling about Jacob and...

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Vicar Matt Doebler

Mar 13
2 min

Matins Devotion: March 13, 2023

Genesis 29:1-30 Who can you really trust? Well, sometimes it seems like there is no obvious answer to that question. It always amazes...

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Pastor Hans Fiene

Mar 10
2 min

Matins Devotion: March 10, 2023

Mark 8:1-21 In our reading from Mark this morning, the Pharisees are once again following the foolish liturgy of sign-seeking that...

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Vicar Matt Doebler

Mar 9
3 min

Matins Devotion: March 9, 2023

Genesis 24:1-31 We are told two important things about Abraham in the opening verse of our Old Testament reading: Abraham is old—and...

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Pastor Hans Fiene

Mar 8
2 min

Matins Devotion: March 8, 2023

Genesis 22:1-19 When God provides a sacrifice atop Mount Moriah, why is it a ram, rather than a lamb? Why is the mighty ram the animal to...

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Pastor Hans Fiene

Mar 8
2 min

Matins Devotion: March 7, 2023

Genesis 21 Family life in the Scriptures is often quite messy, which is something we see in our reading from Genesis this morning. Poor...

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Pastor Hans Fiene

Mar 8
2 min

Matins Devotion: March 6, 2023

Mark 6:14-34 There’s nothing more terrifying than a bad conscience. There’s nothing ghostlier, nothing that haunts us more than the guilt...

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