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...
Being Our Salty Selves

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...
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 Our Salty Selves

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 Our Salty Selves

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,...