Pumpkin Festival

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Volunteer at the Pumpkin Festival with others from Lutheran Student Community on Friday, October 15th from 5 – 6 pm! We’ll be lighting pumpkins, lanterns and luminary bags before the Festival opens to the public! Afterwards, we’ll get dinner together! Email lutheran@psu.edu to volunteer!!

Nikole Hannah-Jones: October 5th

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Nikole Hannah-Jones will speak on the Penn State Campus on Tuesday, October 5th at 7 pm. Her keynote for this virtual event is titled “1619 and the Legacy that Built a Nation.” Hannah-Jones is the creator and lead writer of the New York Times’ major multimedia initiative, “The 1619 Project.” Named for the year the first enslaved Africans arrived in America, …

Thoughtful Conversations

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Tuesday, September 28 at 7 – 8:15 pm Abba Java Coffeehouse (229 Locust) Each month we will join our Presbyterian and Methodist friends and talk together about the intersection of current issues and faith.  September we will talk about race and its impact on our nation and our faith communities starting with the 1619 Project in anticipation of Nikole Hannah-Jones’ …

Weekly Prayer: 9/21

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O God, You are continually turning the world upside down. Your priorities defy the hierarchies we try to create. With love, you create another world, another system that includes everyone. Help me see our structures for what they are:   systems offering advantages to the powerful and disadvantages to the powerless. When I seek power and position, remind me to …

Mark 9:30-37

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30[Jesus and the disciples went on] and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it;31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” 32But they did not understand what he was saying and …

tough call

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As they are traveling, Jesus asks the disciples who people are saying he is.  They report that people think he is a prophet or maybe the return of one of the major prophets of the Jewish people.  When Jesus asks who they – his closest followers – say he is, Peter jumps in and says, “You are the Messiah,” making …

Weekly Prayer: 9/14

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God of compassion, You call me to love and serve the people around me. To live your kind of generosity, sacrifice, self-denial and compassion. That is a daunting task. I don’t always want to do it. People are sometimes just awful. And yet, with your help, I can try. Empower me to give of myself to help others. Fill me …

Mark 8:27-38

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Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” 29He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.” 30And …

be opened

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The Gospels are filled with stories about Jesus healing people.  Healing is at the core of who Jesus is and the ways God impacts the world, then and today.  The stories of healing are all different because each person, each situation, each need, is different.  This week’s story takes place outside the Jewish territory, where Jesus is something of an …

Tuesday, Sept 7 at 7 pm

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Dare to Hope – Bible Exploration Tuesday, September 7 at 7 – 8 pm – Room 211 Pasquerilla Spiritual Center We will explore some daring stories from the Bible and unpack our own hopes for this year, our lives, and the wider world.  We’ll be using video resoruces for each session prepared by a different Lutheran Campus Ministry staff member …