The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Seeing and Telling Who Jesus Is The time after Epiphany is the church’s time to invite us to come and see who this one born in a manger will be, and to discover what this one born to a…
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 sixteenth century, the scriptures for Reformation Day remind us that…
Drawn into Relationship, Guided into Truth The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. The doctrine of the Trinity invites us to consider how a God constituted by relationship—the Father with the Son, the Son with the Spirit, the Spirit with the Father—draws us into that relationship…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Praying for You Today’s gospel reading is first and foremost a prayer. It is Jesus’ prayer, and we are given the privilege of listening in as he prays on behalf of his disciples and people of all times and…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Our Home-making God Into the midst of our anxiety and alarm we are offered a vision of a glorious future filled with promise—the promise that God will make a home with us. This is a promise of an ultimate…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. God’s Beautifully Messy Community From abandonment to homecoming and from a narrow scope to a broader vision of God’s realm, these are the promises proclaimed. The early church and our faith communities are called to engage this reality. A…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. The Searching Sheep Messages and information today are texted, tweeted, broadcast, e-mailed, phoned, lectured, announced, packaged, and repackaged. The means and avenues for communication are many. Yet when it comes to the person known as Jesus of Nazareth we…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Can I Get a Witness? The texts for today explore what it means to be a witness: the power of seeing and experiencing the resurrection firsthand. For those of us who weren’t there in person to witness Christ’s death,…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Facing Death Mary of Bethany recognizes Jesus’ mission: he has come to die. Perceiving the new thing God is doing, she embraces his death and pours out her devotion to Jesus in an extravagant act. The prophet beseeches the…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Talk about Variety! Epiphanies don’t just happen in church—a sudden insight can lead to a “Eureka!” in scientific experiments, an “Aha!” in a detective’s casework, a “Checkmate!” in a fierce chess game, and even a self-satisfied “Yes!” in Sudoku,…