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Family Vacation – July, 2012
Our family got together this past week for our annual summer vacation! A good time was had by all in the Kansas City area. Â Bethany flew in from San Francisco, Dan and Emily drove down from Ames, and Dave and Carolyn drove in from Saint Paul. We enjoyed…
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Carolyn’s Sermon for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost – 7/15/12
Sermon Pentecost 7 year B Grace, mercy and peace from God our Creator and our Lord Jesus Christ. Have you ever been to a party that didn’t turn out well? Today’s gospel story has to win the prize for the “Worst Birthday Party Ever”. It starts out like a great party. The guests and the…
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Moving from Lincoln to Saint Paul, Nebraska in June of 2012
We first put our home on Russwood Circle in Lincoln on the market in March of 2006 after Carolyn became Director of Church Relations at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas the previous August. Â After 5 months, it hadn’t sold and Dave decided to remain a teacher in the Lincoln Public Schools. Â Last month, as…
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Carolyn’s Sermon for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost – 7/1/12
Sermon Pentecost 5 year B Growth and Healing Grace to you and peace from God our Creator and our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Today’s story is a story of healing. When we are hurting or in pain or injured, the pain is sometimes all we can think about. We aren’t thinking about growing spiritually or…
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The Nativity of John the Baptist – 6/24/12
Sermon for Nativity of John the Baptist Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Creator, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. You have heard of Christmas in July. Well, this is Advent in June. John the Baptist is usually a character we hear about in Advent. We Lutherans tend to ignore the saints…
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Carolyn’s Sermon for the Third Sunday After Pentecost – 6/17/12
Sermon for Pentecost 3, year B Grace, mercy, and peace to you from our Creator, Savior, and Comforter. Amen. We are meant to grow. It has been said that growth is the primary sign of life. We are meant to grow. God made us to grow into mature Christians. Today we hear stories about seeds…
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Carolyn’s Sermon for the Second Sunday after Pentecost – 6/10/12
Sermon Pentecost 2, Year B Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and our brother Jesus Christ. Amen. Unless your family is very unusual, you have at least one family member who has done something, let’s just say, unusual, or embarrassing in public, and seems not to care. Or they even think it is…
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Carolyn’s Sermon for Trinity Sunday – 6/3/12
Sermon Holy Trinity Grace, mercy, and peace from our God who is Three in One: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Today is Holy Trinity, the Sunday that the church has dedicated to remember not an event, or a Bible story, but a doctrine, that is teaching of the church. The Trinity is the number…
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Carolyn’s Sermon for Pentecost – 5/27/12
Sermon Pentecost year B Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Today we celebrate Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit. It is one of the three great festivals of the Church.  But it is the one without the reindeer and the bunnies, so the church…
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Carolyn is Ordained! 5/19/12
On Saturday, May 19, 2012, Carolyn Rebecca Hellerich was ordained into the Ministry of Word and Sacrament in the Evangalical Lutheran Church in America. Â Thanks be to God! Carolyn has been called to serve Saint Mark’s Lutheran Church in Saint Paul, Nebraska!
The Hellerich Family 