Being Loved into Liberation

Being Loved into Liberation

Today’s Sermon focus We Are Being Loved Into Liberation At the beginning of my 6th grade year, my mom and stepdad moved to Bellevue, Washington from Spokane. This was a big move. I was starting middle school with not one friend and I was a desperately shy kid. I...
Complexity at Christmas

Complexity at Christmas

Today’s Sermon focus Our complexity at Christmas is welcome! I hope you had a blessed Christmas Eve and have enjoyed the beginning of your Christmas Day. Christmas is the day we celebrate the incarnation of our Lord Jesus with us here, in our lives, in our...
Beer!

Beer!

Today’s Sermon focus Are we to just be drinking beer? Hmm…   As some of you know, I really enjoy bringing poetry into conversations about Scripture. I heard a great one the other day in one of my seminary classes that seems so perfect for this first...
Being Loved into Liberation

Our Holy Work in Community

Today’s Sermon focus We have a Holy Job to do Last week, during announcements I invited you guys to join me at Drag Eucharist at the YWCA and I was asked by a few folks about what that experience was like. So I thought I’d share a little bit today.   The...
Being Loved into Liberation

Discerning our role in creation

Today’s Sermon focus What’s our role again?   I think anyone who has ever owned a cat will have serious questions about what’s meant by “dominion” in the Genesis reading.   In Genesis, God tells his newly formed people, “Be fruitful and multiply,...