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Please visit our homepage and specific ministry pages to see how we are adapting our shared ministry to this challenge.
Right now, we’re worshiping virtually on Sundays at 11:00 am. Links to previous sermon texts are here on this page. You can hear the latest sermon preached when you join us on Sunday mornings for virtual worship at 11:00 am.
Links to all our past worship videos – with sermons – are here. If we don’t yet have a direct link for a service, you can always go to our youtube channel to look for it.

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The Wonders and Gifts of Holy Darkness – 10 January 2021

“… what if God creating light isn’t a proclamation against darkness? What if it was a celebration of the canvas on which God created the cosmos?” Rev. Adrianne Meier January 10, 2021, Baptism of Our Lord, Year B St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Bloomington, Indiana Click here for a printable version of this sermon. The Wonders …

16 Jan 202116 Jan 2021

The Most Loving Thing – 6 January 2021

“In the face of this news of violence and insurrection at the United State Capitol, when we have to determine what to do next, do the next loving thing.” Rev. Adrianne Meier January 6, 2021, Epiphany, Year B St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Bloomington, Indiana The Most Loving Thing Click here for a printable version of …

8 Jan 202119 Jan 2021

A Song of Hope for What Is Yet To Come – 23 December 2020

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten we belong to each other.” Rev. Adrianne Meier 2020 Advent Midweeks, 4 St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Bloomington, Indiana A Song of Hope For What Is Yet to Come, Luke 2:13-14 Click here for a printable copy of this sermon. Luke 2:13-14 And suddenly there …

24 Dec 202021 Jan 2021

Make Room – 20 December 2020

“Compassion is knowing that my future is tied to yours.” Rev. Adrianne Meier December 20, 2020, 4th Sunday in Advent, Year B St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Bloomington, Indiana Click here for a printable version of this sermon. Make Room Luke 1:26-38, NRSV, emended In the sixth month (of Elizabeth’s pregnancy) the angel Gabriel was sent …

22 Dec 202021 Jan 2021

A Song of Hope When the End is Near, Luke 2:29-32 – 16 December 2020

“The Christ event is like a stone dropped in the calm pond of history, its ripples impact past, present, and future – ours, and all of humanity’s.” Rev. Adrianne Meier 2020 Advent Midweeks, 3 St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Bloomington, Indiana A Song of Hope When the End is Near,  Click here for a printable version …

18 Dec 202020 Jan 2021

Rejoice Always? – 13 December 2020

“As Christians, joy is a way of seeing the God’s redemptive work in the world. In Greek, the word joy and the word grace share the same root…” Rev. Adrianne Meier December 13, 2020, 3rd Sunday in Advent, Year B St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Bloomington, Indiana Click here for a printable version of this sermon. …

17 Dec 202017 Dec 2020

A Song of Hope that We Might Be Signs of God’s Kin-dom, Luke 1:67-79 – 9 December 2020

“It will be enough for your pain make to you more aware of the pain of others – to respond to them and give them a reason for hope.” Rev. Adrianne Meier 9 December 2020 – Advent Midweeks, 2 St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Bloomington, Indiana A Song of Hope that We Might Be Signs of …

11 Dec 202018 Jan 2021

Begin in the Wilderness – 6 December 2020

 “Maybe it will be enough for us to simply begin by waking up to the wilderness that we find ourselves in and the work that is being done in us for the sake of the kin-dom of God.”   Rev. Adrianne Meier December 6, 2020, 2nd Sunday in Advent, Year B  St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Bloomington, …

10 Dec 202010 Dec 2020

A Song of Hope for the Repairing of the World, Luke 1:46-55 – 2 December 2020

“Mary’s song encourages us to name, specifically, the injustices and inequalities of human life.“ Rev. Adrianne Meier 2 December 2020 – Advent Midweeks, 1 St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Bloomington, Indiana Click here for a printable copy of this sermon. A Song of Hope for the Repairing of the World, Luke 1:46-55 Luke 1:46-55 And Mary …

3 Dec 202018 Jan 2021

Keep Awake – 29 November 2020

“Being present asks us to acknowledge what is happening long enough that it can stop being lord of our lives, and let Jesus take that place instead.” “Keep Awake” – Rev. Adrianne Meier November 29, 2020, 1st Sunday in Advent, Year B St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Bloomington, Indiana Click here for a printable version of …

1 Dec 20203 Dec 2020

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