Faith Explorations
The Path of Life
Today's Sermon focus Jesus' Prayer Practice TeachingEaster is not only of time of exhilaration, but a time of acceleration. As renewed and enlivened people of God, we are driven to accelerate the Good News of resurrection life. Picture yourself driving through a work...
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 mountain top and then...
A Coming Out Party
Today's Sermon focus God's call is for us to include others in our circles of caring so that we are a part of their liberation Included in the Prayer of St. Francis is the prayer, “O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be...
A Prayer for our Darkest Valleys
Today's Sermon focus A Prayer for Your Dark DaysNormally, 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 could be...
Nicodemus Fan Club
Today's Sermon focus There is room for your questions and wonder in ChristianityNicodemus 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 supposed...
If Only…
Today's Sermon focus Moving from WHAT IF to FaithTevye, in Fiddler On the Roof, sings: “If I Were a Rich Man” If I were a rich man,All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.If I were a wealthy man.I wouldn't have to work hard.If I were a biddy biddy...
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 the...
Being Loved into Liberation
Today's Sermon focus We Are Being Loved Into LiberationAt 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 felt...
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 bodies, in...
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