5 Remembrances

5 Remembrances

Today’s Sermon focus The truth is we cannot control life, but we can stand upon the strong foundation of God’s love Years ago, I went through a training to be an leadership coach. It was a wonderful experience and was a big part of me coming back to the...
Get Ready

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...
Woes and Blessings

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...
Connecting Your Story

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...
Getting Beyond Ourselves

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...
Jesus’ Rules

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....