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This Week at New Spirit: There Is a Seat for You Here

Pastor’s Reflection This week we continued our core values series with Belonging Matters. In Matthew 12, Jesus shows us that people matter more than religious gatekeeping. He feeds the hungry, heals the hurting, and refuses to let religious systems decide who deserves mercy. This message also connected with Pride Sunday and New Spirit’s identity as
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This Week at New Spirit: You Don’t Earn Your Place Here – Grace Comes First

This Week at New Spirit June 2–8, 2026 Pastor’s Reflection This past Sunday, we continued our core values series with the simple but powerful truth that grace comes first. Life teaches us that we have to earn our place, prove our worth, or become acceptable before we are fully welcomed. The gospel tells a different
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This Week at New Spirit: The Spirit Creates Belonging

This Week at New Spirit 1. Pastor’s Reflection One of the most important things we named on Pentecost Sunday is this: The Holy Spirit creates belonging before demanding conformity. That means you do not have to pretend here. You do not have to have all the answers. None of us have to earn grace. You
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This Week at New Spirit 5.20.26

This Week at New Spirit 5.20.26 Pastor’s Reflection Over the past few years, something has been happening at New Spirit. Not all at once. Not through one program or one person.>But slowly, faithfully, through worship, service, hard conversations, acts of love, and the movement of the Holy Spirit. This Sunday, on Pentecost, we are going
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This Week at New Spirit — May 10, 2026

This Week at New Spirit — May 10, 2026 See how the spirit is moving in the New Spirit Lutheran Church weekly update for the week of May 10, 2026. Pastor’s Reflection This week, I have been thinking a lot about authenticity and intentionality. Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on
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This Week at New Spirit – May 6, 2026

This Week at New Spirit – May 6, 2026 Pastor’s Reflection This past Sunday we talked about prayer—and specifically the question so many of us carry: when do I even have time to pray? Here’s the truth: most of us don’t have hours each day to devote to prayer like Martin Luther did. And that’s
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This Week at New Spirit April 28, 2026

This Week at New Spirit Pastor’s Reflection This morning, I was having a conversation, that once again reenforced how God is actively working even when we don’t see it, feel it, or understand it. I spend a lot of time in prayer regarding my pastoral ministry, the ministry of New Spirit, and for an openness
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This Week at New Spirit – April 14, 2026

Pastor’s Reflection This article is a little longer, because I am so excited by what is happening. I don’t know if you can feel it, but this time of year always carries a different kind of energy. Maybe it’s the lingering glow of Easter—the reminder that new life is real and that, in the end,
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This Week at New Spirit – Holy Week 2026

This Week at New Spirit Lutheran Church – Holy Week 2026 1. Pastor’s Reflection Holy Week 2026. A week of mixed emotions. A week of traditions. If we are not careful it is very easy to think we know this story, that this story can’t speak to us in new ways. One way that we
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This Week at New Spirit – March 24, 2026

This Week at New Spirit Lutheran Church | March 24, 2026 This coming Saturday, people across the country will gather to raise their voices—and I know some from New Spirit will be among them as part of our commitment to public witness. The timing, on the eve of Palm/Passion Sunday, is hard to ignore. When
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