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This site features sermons preached by The Rev. Alex Zuber. He serves as a Pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). A native of Roanoke, Virginia, Alex attended James Madison University, the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, and served a Lutheran Parish in Luray, Virginia from 2014-2018. He currently serves as Associate Pastor at Muhlenberg Lutheran Church and resides with his wife and their Dog (Ayra) and cat (Toothless) in Harrisonburg, VA.
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Welcome to the Wellspring, where the Grace of God is bubbling up for you, and for all people, wherever you are! The Wellspring Podcast is a digital ministry of Muhlenberg Lutheran Church, coming to you from the Friendly City of Harrisonburg, Virginia, where we pray that this time together may truly be a wellspring of God’s grace for all people who listen, equipping you with new ways to live out Christ’s love. Episodes of the Wellspring Podcast are meant to be used as a bible study, devotiona ...
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S1E6 - Trauma Stewardship - Episode 006: Living Intentionally
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Episode Notes This is Episode number 6, titled: “Living Intentionally”. This is the final episode of our first series of this podcast, concluding our study on the book “Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self, While Caring for Others” by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky. Today’s episode covers Chapter 12: The Fifth Direction — A Daily Prac…
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S1E5 - Trauma Stewardship - Episode 005: The Way is Wide
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Episode Notes This is Episode number 5, titled: “The Way is Wide” discussing chapters 8 through 11 of “Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others” by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky. Our guest host Karen Barnes offers reflections on her long career in various fields of caregiving and discusses 4 of the 5 directions th…
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S1E4 - Trauma Stewardship - Episode 004: Inside Out
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Episode 004: "Inside Out" This is Episode number 4, titled: “Inside Out” discussing Chapters 5 and 6 of the book “Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self, While Caring for Others” by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky. Our guest host is Pastor Micah Krey, who brings his pastoral experience, as well as his personal experience of addiction rec…
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S1E3 - Trauma Stewardship - Episode 003: A Way in the Wilderness
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Episode Notes This is Episode number 3, titled: “A Way in the Wilderness” discussing Chapters 3 and 4 of the book “Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self, While Caring for Others” by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky. Our guest host is Kristee Trumbo, a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings her perspective to the process of mapping ou…
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S1E2 - Trauma Stewardship - Episode 002: The Communal "Yes, And..."
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Episode 2: The Communal "Yes, And..." This is Episode number 2, titled: “The Communal Yes, And…” Discussing Chapters 1 and 2 of the book “Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self, While Caring for Others” by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, our guest host is Ashley Saunders. Ashley brings years of experience in Community Organizing and Adv…
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S1E1 - Trauma Stewardship - Episode 001: We're All Traumatized
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Episode Notes This is Episode number 1, titled: “We’re All Traumatized”. This is the first episode EVER for this podcast, and more importantly the first episode in our study on the book “Trauma Stewardship: An Every Day Guide to Caring for Self, While Caring for Others” by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky. Today’s episode covers the introduction of the boo…
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How can One Father, plus One Son, plus One Holy Spirit possibly allow us to worship ONE GOD? Folks often get hung up on the math of the Holy Trinity. But what if we're using the wrong operator? What if the right operator means that God's love is multiplying so that we are all one? What if the right operator means that even with division we are stil…
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"This is an uncommon time, full of new life through the presence of the Advocate who walks with us, teaching us and reminding us all of what Christ has said. On this day that transcends the ordinary, alights us all with the fire of God’s fulfilled promises, and sends us on new paths to boldly live out Christ’s way of love, I give thanks for the Spi…
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"...Part of human nature is to build defenses, create biases, draw assumptions that will protect ourselves. It is part of who we are to draw lines of in and out. We do this to be safe. But it is also part of human nature for these defenses, biases, and assumptions to be challenged. It’s human nature to protect ourselves, close off our circles until…
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"Sometimes it takes a while for us to be tended in such a way that we break through all that was burying us in distraction, shame, guilt, and fear. Peter and I needed three petitions to be reminded that we were worthy of love, sometimes it takes a lot more.It takes a while to break loose and grow into the light of resurrection. Perhaps as we shake …
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I'm not saying we shouldn't doubt God. I'm saying we CAN'T.It's not possible.If we could doubt God, then it would mean that faith was something we could accomplish, or it was something at which we could fail. It would deny the truth of the nature of faith... it is a gift.Sermon Preached by Pastor Alex Zuber at Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran Chu…
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When The Dead Don't Stay Dead- Easter Sunday
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There is only one certainty in life... Death.We will all die. And yet, on Easter, we share the promise that the dead don't stay dead. This story of resurrection challenges everything our world holds certain. This story of resurrection changes everything. This story of resurrection rolls away the stone on all the deathly conditions that hold God's p…
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So much of our Lenten journey can seem like it's about us. So much of our conversation around "TURN" can seem like it's our work. And sometimes it is. Sometimes we need to be challenged and convicted, moved to action in God's name. But sometimes....It's God's Turn.Actually, it's always God's Turn. Trusting this is knowing that: You're not alone. Yo…
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Did you see what happens in this story? Not only is it a parable with a clear call to action, calling for repentance that we might bear faithful fruit, but Jesus acknowledges the manure and its role in life.This is the week of weird google searches as I prepare for a sermon, but I searched this week for “How does manure become fertilizer?” I was in…
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There were a million different ways to take this text. There are endless ways that the Gospel of Jesus Christ turns our world upside down, and I could have highlighted any one of them. But after this week, any message that didn't address and confront White Supremacy just seemed inauthentic to me. We've got to talk about it. We've got to name it. We…
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Throughout this season of Lent we will be called to turn back to God’s word, seeking the ways in which it gives us life and sustains us for the journey. However, we cannot turn to God’s Word with a desire to love only THIS far, and no further. God’s love is reaching out, farther and farther than our human lines and divisions. God’s word is a messag…
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