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  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!  The word for our meditation today comes to us from Brooklyn Fischer’s confirmation verse, Deuteronomy 6:5-6, which reads ... You will love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and all your being, and all your might. And these words that I command you this day will be upon your heart.  Brooklyn, what a great day it is to be reminded of this word! What a great day this is for Zion, and for your husband, Hagan. What a great day this is for the church at large. This is a day the Lord has anointed for you. So let us all rejoice and be glad in it.  I don’t know about the rest of my brothers and sisters in Christ in the room, but I definitely remember my day like this way back in 1978. How can any of us forget? This is a day we are reminded that God has set his Gospel upon our heart.  1. Brooklyn, because today is your Confirmation Day ... the day you confirm you have the same faith in ...

Sunday, March 28, 2021 Dear Hope, Hailey, Hunter, and Nora, Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! This is an exciting day, isn’t it? Today is, in fact, one of the most important days of your life. And that makes it exciting. I know I am excited for you. And it is my hope and my prayer that today is a day you’ll always remember. I certainly remember my day way back in 1978. I don’t remember exactly what Pastor Newman told me back then, so I am going to do something different for you today to try to help you remember this day even more.  Today, because it is Confirmation Day, instead of a sermon that you only hear , I have prepared a sermon for you to keep and read , it’s really a letter, written especially for each of you. You’ll find this letter in the gift I will present to you on behalf of the congregation. Of course, we’ll let everybody else in the room hear most of the letter I have written to each of you ... it’s good for all of us ....