Pastor Joe Freeman, Senior Pastor
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Christ the Savior Lutheran Church
10500 East 126th Street
Fishers, IN 46038
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, ELCA
Phone: 317.842.5649
Fax: 317.842.5659
E-mail: mainoffice@christthesavior.org
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Pastor's Column
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| 1/1/2010 | 2010: Soul-Care and Being Led Rightly | Be attentive and responsive to the growth-in-personal-faith opportunities offered through our church, in the New Year. | 2010: Soul-Care and Being Led Rightly |
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| 12/1/2009 | Jesus' Place In Your Life | Where will you position Jesus in your heart, life and being? | Jesus' Place in Your Life |
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| 11/1/2009 | The Difference Between The Two ‘S’-Words: Secular and Sacred | The secular becomes sacred again when we wake-up, realize and carryout God’s purposes for people, places and things that exist. | The Difference Between The Two ‘S’-Words: Secular |
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| 10/1/2009 | Following the Person of Jesus | We follow Jesus as true Lord, as our most cherished abiding Presence, as the One who instructs us – and who empowers us to live life more insightfully | Following the Person of Jesus |
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| 9/1/2009 | Destiny vs. Fate | I am convinced that destiny and fate are only different from one another, if one believes there is a larger story, with God as the Key Actor and you, I and countless others are “supporting actors.” | Destiny vs. Fate |
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| 8/1/2009 | The People Jesus Offended, the People He Attracted | I believe that, until many of our members learn to combine in equal doses, compassion and truth, irreligious people will continue to be irreligious and to disregard and be disinterested in Christian Community. | The People Jesus Offended, the People He Attracted |
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| 7/1/2009 | Scripture's Counsel On Our Maturing In Christ | It takes all our lives to unpack and sort this out, before we fully appreciate how the puzzle-of-us fits together in all its pieces. What a mystery!! | Scripture's Counsel On Our Maturing In Christ |
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| 6/1/2009 | Transformation Needs God's Abiding Presence | We need more than ‘mere improvement’ as human beings; we need ‘transformation’, and that is God’s activity within us, | Transformation Needs God's Abiding Presence |
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| 5/1/2009 | Our Fallen Nature - Our Transformation Journey | Transformation is about becoming like Jesus, which is an ongoing work of God’s grace in you and me. | Our Fallen Nature - Our Transformation Journey |
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| 4/1/2009 | Drawing People Back to God | Helping others know and experience more fully how beautiful they are in God’s eyes, takes maturing love on our part. | Drawing People Back to God |
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| Sep 01 2007 | The Greatest Lasting Longing of All | I believe that, as long as you and I choose to be the architect-and-engineer of how we meet our personal longings, that we’ll seriously ‘miss-the-mark’ of how to understand and meet them rightly. | The Greatest Lasting Longing of All |
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| Aug 01 2007 | Your ‘Preferred-Plan’ For Your Life vs. God’s Master Plan | You and I need to widen the perimeters of our own plans and welcome His counsel, purpose, presence and grace to profoundly replace our limited, unimaginative, fear-based plan. | God's Master Plan |
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| Jul 01 2007 | They Say Love is This or That | Love is a journey, moving from being selfishly shielded to being celebrated and given witness to. | They Say Love is This Or That |
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| Jun 01 2007 | About This Matter of Security | To misplace our trust in externals is to up-end our lives with constant torment and uneasy, unresolved paralyzing worry. | About This Matter of Security |
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| May 01 2007 | Choosing Irony Over Anticipation | Irony has everything to do with the mystery of Gods' Providential will and plan for our lives - and maturing faith and abiding trust, not anticipation and guesswork, will prepare and equip us. | Choosing Irony Over Anticipation |
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| Apr 01 2007 | If The Map Doesn’t Agree With the Ground, the Map Is Wrong” | Our minds are 'maps' of sorts. In short, life involves as much un-learning as it does learning. | If the Map Doesn't Agree... |
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| Mar 01 2007 | Building an Enduring Marriage | It’s no mistake that maturity and matrimony come from the same Latin word. That is, a fruitful marriage will refine, mature and deepen the capabilities of two persons willing to truly commit to “go the distance”. | |
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| Feb 01 2007 | Becoming Through Our Heavenly Father | The true potential we carry to become certain quality human beings actually resides in how much we welcome God to be our Heavenly Father and how much we take our developmental ‘cues’, from that deeper and greater, abiding Reality!! | Becoming Through Our Heavenly Father |
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| Jan 01 2007 | Vision & Vitality | In the midst of our own self-concocted earth-centered visions for a ‘preferred future’, God ‘awakens’ us to His more profound vision. | Vision & Vitality |
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| Dec 01 2006 | Bonhoeffer 100 Years Ago This Year | Yes, in Bonhoeffer’s world and time Christmas came in the midst of personal danger, national threat and world upheaval—as it does in our lifetime 100 years, to the year, of Bonhoeffer’s birth. | Boenhoffer, 100 Years Ago This Year |
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