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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| 8/1/2010 | The Partnership of Preparation and Promptings | The Old Testament books of Ezra and Nehemiah illustrate the lives of two men who had professional careers and were very competent, but who also, because these were men of faith, had promptings within that moved them to do some God-led things. | The Partnership of Preparation and Promptings |
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| 7/1/2010 | Renewal in the Sun and Through the Son | Recently, I’ve been enjoying the reading of a book by author, Flora Slasson Wuellner, entitled “Feed My Shepherds: Spiritual Healing and Renewal for those in Christian Leadership”. | Renewal in the Sun and Through the Son |
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| 6/1/2010 | Work, Wisdom and Wonder | The title of this article is a way of encouraging us to strike a balance in our lives, of work, wisdom and wonder. Too much of one, without the integrative, practical features of the other two, brings dis-equilibrium and dis-ease to our lives. | Work, Wisdom and Wonder |
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| 5/1/2010 | The Art of Interpreting Challenging Events | The question I’d like to address in this little essay is “what predisposition of personhood best helps with more rightly interpreting challenging events?” | The Art of Interpreting Challenging Events |
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| 4/1/2010 | Mutual Truthfulness: Truth Touching Truth | While reading Scripture during this past Lenten Season and knowing the purposeful, as well as painful, steps Jesus took to the Cross for you, me and countless others, I began to think about the truth-of-me meeting the truth-of-God. Let me explain | Mutual Truthfulness: Truth Touching Truth |
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| 3/1/2010 | Legalism, License & Grace | Imagine, with me, that the journey of grace is one which delights neither in legalism nor in license. | Legalism, License & Grace |
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| 2/1/2010 | God’s Loving Valentine To Us | God’s Loving, Valentine to us is Jesus. Our Loving Valentine to Him is our Surrendered Lives. | God’s Loving Valentine To Us |
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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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| 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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