Mt. Carmel Lutheran Church
1701 Fredericks Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
(805) 544-2133
Sunday Services:
8:45am Traditional
11:00am Contemporary
Office Hours: 8:30am - 3:00pm weekdays
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In this coming Sunday's Gospel reading, taken this week from the first chapter of John, (which we'll be celebrating as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s commemoration day, we find one of Jesus' disciples (Philip's)
invitation to his friend Nathaniel to come an check this guy from the Galilean hinterland out, this Jesus who seems to fulfill just what Moses and the prophets had forseen. "Can anything good come out of Nazareth," Nathaniel sneers in one of scripture's all-time great put-downs. As I'll say in Sunday's sermon, I find myself too often being cynical and sarcastic about other folk's enthusiasm, betraying my enslavement to the dogma of those "seven last words of the church" we all know so well, "We've never done it that way before."
Epiphany is a time to dream dreams and see visions—all made possible by that absolutely new thing that came to birth in a Bethlehem stable and emerged spluttering from the Jordan, wet with the baptism of John, possessed by the Spirit of God who had declared delight in this Jesus of Nazareth—of all places.
And so prepare to be surprised by the new thing God is preparing even for the likes of us.
Happy Epiphany! John Rollefson
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Pastors' Contact Info:
Pastor Valerie
805-776-3377
pastor.valerie.carlson@gmail.com
Office Hours: Tuesdays (11am-1pm) and Thursdays (12:30-3:00pm)
Pastor Dan
805-776-3707
pastor.dcarlson@gmail.com
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