Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church

Text: Numbers 13:1-3, 25-33, Numbers 14:1-9

Description:  Hearing a report of bad news led the Israelites again to panic and doubt God’s plan for them. Why do we pay more attention to bad news than to hopeful news?

Text: Luke 14:11-32

Description:  Family dynamics are real...even in God's family.  Big Brother Bias can keep us from being in relationship with our siblings in Christ and joining in God's party.

Text: Exodus 32:1-14

Description: As we continue journeying with the Israelites, they grow impatient because Moses has been up on the mountain too long. They make a golden calf to worship in place of God.  What and who do we idolize?  God is trustworthy. 

Text: Luke 13:1-9

Description: Why do bad things happen to people? In Jesus’ time, hardship was thought to be God’s punishment for sin. What does Jesus have to say about that?

Text: Exodus 17:1-7

Description: Where the Lord leads, the Lord does not leave.  There is water for us on our journey if we choose to drink.

Text: Luke 13:31-35

Description: As mother hen desires to gather her chicks under her protective wing, God desires to gather us.  Are we willing?

Text: Exodus 16:1-18

Description: The Israelites have escaped the oppression they were under in Egypt.  But now, they are longing for the past.  God hears their cries and gives them manna, quail, and a lesson in equity. 

Text: Luke 4:1-13   Description: The battle between good and evil is constantly being waged, inside each of us and in our world at large. Jesus faced the same temptation we do...to follow our own way, and trust in our own judgment over God's.

Text: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Description: How to faithfully Lent in 2022 despite what Jesus said.

Text: Luke 9:28-37

Description: Jesus and his disciples experience something amazing on the mountaintop.  The disciples want to build a tent around this amazing time.  But they had to come back down the mountain.  Jesus is with us on the mountains and in the valleys of our lives.  Our lives aren’t meant to be comfortable all the time.  We have to get out of our comfort zones to do God’s work in the world.