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Click and hear a word of encouragement - where you can't help or change yourself, God stands ready to transform you into the person God intends you to be. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Portions of this bulletin are from Sundays and Season copyright 2020 Augsburg Fortress. Intercessory prayers: Adapted from Gail Ramshaw (blogs.elca.org). Music is used by permission for streaming/podcast under One License # 713862 and Augsburg Fortress Liturgies License # 26108) or it is the common domain. Visual Art: 1. Pixabay.com 2. JESUS MAFA. The parable of the sower, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48309 [retrieved July 5, 2020]. Original source: http://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr (contact page: https://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr/contact). 3. Sower Went Out to Sow, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57550 [retrieved July 5, 2020]. Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/feargal/5765705109/.

Click the link for an update from the parish and for a reflection on the parable of the sower in Matthew 13. What does bega kwa bega mean? And did Jesus really call us dirt?

Click the link for news from the parish, and for a reflection on the phrase Word of God - - - how do Lutheran Christians understand "Word of God"? (Hint: There is a threefold understanding). John 1:1-5.

Click the link for news from the parish and community, and for a consideration of God's word. How is God's word described in Isaiah 55:10-13 and how has this imagery been carried forward into our hymns? Word of God is the theme for this week's Scripture readings.

Hear a word of comfort today - Jesus' invitation to all who are weary and bearing heavy burdens to come to him, and to find rest. **** ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Portions of this bulletin are from Sundays and Season copyright 2020 Augsburg Fortress. Intercessory prayers: Adapted from Gail Ramshaw (blogs.elca.org). Music is used by permission for streaming/podcast under One License # 713862 (On Eagle’s Wings) and Augsburg Fortress Liturgies License # 26108 (Day by Day). Other music (Glory to God, I’m So Glad Jesus lifted me) is in the common domain. Visual Art: Pixabay.com

Click the link for an update from the community and for a reflection on Matthew 11. Do we live to please people or to please God?

Click the link for an update from the parish and for a reflection on the war between good and evil that exists not only in the world, but inside ourselves. Romans 7:15-25a. Sin is strong, but the Spirit of God has prevailed!

Click the link for an update from the parish (Hint: Our antiracism discussions are not over yet!) and for an invitation to rest in God and to praise God. Psalm 145:8-14.

Join God's people in worship with Our Savior Lutheran Church of Twin Falls. Learn the history of two hymns. Ponder our natural tendency to remember the good and to disremember the bad. Hear God's prophetic call for liberation and justice for all people. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Portions of this bulletin are from Sundays and Season copyright 2020 Augsburg Fortress. Intercessory prayers are adapted from Gail Ramshaw (blogs.elca.org) Music is used by permission for streaming/podcast under One License # 713862 and Augsburg Fortress Liturgies License # 26108, or it is in the common domain. Visual Art: 1. Pastor Anne’s collection (Roses in front of the church; Dierke’s Lake trail)