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Forgiving Debt

Forgiving Debt

Today's Sermon focus After all, we gotta serve somebodyToday’s Gospel reading is confusing and clear – at the same time. To be honest, it’s something everyone who reads scripture has to live with – the ambiguity of certain parts.  The very last verse – “You cannot...

Wait…Who’s Lost?

Wait…Who’s Lost?

Today's Sermon focus Wait...Who's Lost Again? It’s good to be back from vacation. I had a great couple weeks of getting outside in the Sierra mountains, visiting friends, hanging out with my husband, and a lot of park time with the three dogs, watching them play. But...

Becoming Pointless!

Becoming Pointless!

Today's Sermon focus Becoming Pointless!   This past week one of the true saints of the church died.  Dan Erlander was an ELCA pastor, theologian, campus pastor at PLU and Holden Village.  He wrote countless books and pamphlets that are widely used.   One of...

Peace ala Lucy Isn’t Peace

Today's Sermon focus Peace Ala Lucy I loved the Peanuts when I was a kid. Who didn’t love the Christmas special, when the kids were getting their Christmas play ready and Charlie Brown’s worry about the over-commercialization of Christmas.   Now Lucy and Linus...

Radical Faith of Freckles

Radical Faith of Freckles

Today's Sermon focus The Radical Faith of Freckles My husband, Nate, and I have three dogs. You may have met Nikko, who is in Wenatchee with me and Nate has the other two, Freckles and Clay. Nikko is our old man who we rescued 2 years ago when he was 11 years old and...

Prayer Practice is Knocking and Receiving

Prayer Practice is Knocking and Receiving

Today's Sermon focus Jesus' Prayer Practice TeachingA while ago, I saw this cute little video online of this kid who was so upset, crying for help. He was in a shallow pool that was only up to the knees of the adults around him. It was a very safe situation, but this...

Good Samaritan: Living Out Our Faith

Good Samaritan: Living Out Our Faith

Today's Sermon focus Moved With Compassion, Showing MercyThis passage indicts people like me, who like to study and quote the Bible. I’m a scholar, like the scholar of the law who questions Jesus. This person questioning Jesus is basically asking: Do I really have to...

Seventy Goofballs

Seventy Goofballs

Today's Sermon focus 70 Goofballs Go on a Mission   The whole second half of Gospel of Luke is Jesus' Journey to from Galilee south to Jerusalem. The movement Jesus has organized in Galilee, what we might call the "kingdom-of-God-drawing-near movement,” must now...

Degenerate Punk Christians, Rebel!

Degenerate Punk Christians, Rebel!

Today's Sermon focus Christians are rebels. Always have been. What's the rebellion you're called to in Christ?   One of the fun things I’ve learned about the early church in class this past spring is that the early Christians were considered by the Roman...

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