Faith Explorations
Get Ready
Today's Sermon focus Get ready when you have a mountain top moment. The work to come just may be holy, but tough. Get ready. You’re about to have a song stuck in your head for the rest of the week, so I hope you like this one! It’s the Beatles tune, 8 Days a Week....
Woes and Blessings
Today's Sermon focus Woe to us who are disconnected from the realities of the world. One of the best songs of all time, imho, is Hotel California. I’m not even that much of an Eagles fan or necessarily a fan of 70’s rock. I love this song in part because it is honest...
Connecting Your Story
Today's Sermon focus Your story and reality is reflected in God's story. It is a trustworthy guide! After I graduated seminary and made it through the candidacy process with the ELCA, I had written roughly a bajillion words about myself. I was so tired of thinking...
Getting Beyond Ourselves
Today's Sermon focus Empathy is the path of love and getting beyond ourselves, not a sin. Recently, I was engaged in highly risky behavior. I was spending time online, ingesting people’s opinions on this, that, and the other thing. Dangerous, I know! It’s what the...
Jesus’ Rules
Today's Sermon focus Which rules are we playing by? God's or ours? It makes all the difference.Nate and I have a long history of being very annoying board game players because we tend to not play by the rules. This drives serious board game players nuts. For example,...
God’s Goodness is Unlimited
Today's Sermon focus At the wedding of Cana, all the good planning still comes up short. But when it comes to God, the goodness is unlimited. Lots of folks have great experiences at summer camps. People make life-long friends, learn lots of new things like canoeing...
What Baptism is About
Today's Sermon focus Why should we be remembering our baptisms daily? There really is a good reason.It has to do with wolves...What would you say if I asked you to tell me about your baptism? Would you have an answer to that? What would you say if I asked you about...
God’s Word Made Flesh
As most of you know, my stepdad died right before Thanksgiving this year and I’m just returning from being with my family for the funeral. The time together was hard, but also very enriching. Lots of good conversations and stories. I don’t need to tell those of you...
The Good News of Christmas
Today's Sermon focus Harmony in our voices is powerful and inclusiveLike a few number of you I’m guessing, I watched the Charlie Brown Christmas special again this year. The best part of the whole wonderful thing is when Charlie Brown has finally had enough of...
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