Risking Participation

Risking Participation

  Today’s Sermon focus Participation in creation, not always as the stars of the show but hopefully as the stewards, the “do-ers” of justice A few days ago I went on a hike up Saddle Rock and there was a field trip going on of bunches of 5th...
A Walk Into Holy Week

A Walk Into Holy Week

Today’s Sermon focus Let’s not skip to Easter too quickly… Wow. What an emotional ride Palm/Passion Sunday is. We start here (hand up!) and end up here (hand down low!). Looking ahead to Easter through Holy Week, it’s like starting on one high...
A Prayer for our Darkest Valleys

A Prayer for our Darkest Valleys

Today’s Sermon focus A Prayer for Your Dark Days Normally, when I preach I focus on the gospel reading, but that’s not the focus today, even though there is a lot we could discuss in this gospel lesson about healing, testimony, and trust. There’s a lot that...
A Walk Into Holy Week

Nicodemus Fan Club

Today’s Sermon focus There is room for your questions and wonder in Christianity Nicodemus is my new hero and here’s why. He is a religious leader. He’s already supposed to know ‘all the things’ and be the one teaching other people ‘all the things.’ He’s not...
A Walk Into Holy Week

Being Our Salty Selves

Today’s Sermon focus What does it mean to be the salt of the earth or the light of God? On my class trip to Guatemala this January, part of our visit took us to the village of La Esmeralda and a Lutheran congregation there. Esmeralda is in an isolated part of...