Third Sunday of Advent The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Living In the Now and the Not Yet In this season of Advent we stand in the discomforting quiet of waiting for the salvation of the Lord while simultaneously seeing that very salvation breaking into the world around us. Like John…
Second Sunday of Advent First Sunday of Advent The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Pointing to Jesus John the Baptist is a fitting messenger for the season of Advent, a time for the church to prepare for both the nativity of the Christ and for his second coming. John’s call to…
First Sunday of Advent The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Turn On. Tune In. Wake Up! In the 1960’s people were urged to turn on, tune in, and drop out—to leave the material world behind in favor of an alternate reality. In today’s gospel, Jesus also urges us to tune into…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Who Is Jesus? Jesus’ true identity seems to remain a mystery for most of the disciples. Jesus can teach, preach, heal, cast out demons, challenge authority and more, but still they do not comprehend. You might say it is a case of mistaken identity as…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. From Life to Death and Death to Life In our baptisms we move spiritually from death to life. We are reminded of this in the words from the service of Holy Baptism: “In baptism our gracious heavenly Father frees us from sin and death by joining…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Let’s Talk Resurrection When the Sadducees encounter Jesus with a technical question, he responds by humanizing and placing divine value upon each character in the Sadducees’ hypothetical scenario. Jesus’ response is about resurrection and about naming people as children of God and of light. The…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Wholly Saints Who are the saints, and what do they have to say to us? Rather than being perfect Christians, the saints are people who have been made whole by the grace of God, through baptism into Christ. The communion of saints is a diverse…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Good News All Over Again The desire to privatize the free love of God for all creation seems stamped on the human soul. While Lutherans learn early on in their faith formation about the abuses of the church through the sale of indulgences in the…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Kyrie eleison: Persistence in Prayer Two characters step out of scripture today to teach us about persistence in prayer. One is named. Jacob is the devious brother who tricked his twin, Esau, out of his birthright and their father’s blessing, and Jacob was himself duped…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Blessings and Miracles Abound Today is a day of unexpected blessings and miracles, signs of how God is active and alive and present in our world and in our lives when we are open and receptive to the possibilities. We hear, read about, and experience…