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How Hungry Are You?

traditional sermon Pentecost 9 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. And all ate and were filled. (Matthew…

Coveting the Past … Embracing the Future

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL The Day of Pentecost For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. (Romans 8:24-25) I spent the better part of Friday afternoon listening to a presentation…

Ashes to Ashes ….

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL EASTER 5 Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The Lord bless him and keep him. The Lord makes his face shine on her and be gracious to her. The Lord look upon him with favor and give her peace. (LBW Burial of the Dead liturgy) I read these words three times this…

Good Friday

Traditional Sermon We don’t want to be here. We avoid death. We’re alive. And as living beings we avoid everything about death. Our eyes shift toward tragedy until we encounter the source of death and quickly our eyes turn away to things of life. Our noses find the smell of decay and long for clean,…

Millennials

Email Devotional Epiphany 5 Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. (Romans 12:12) It continues to be one of my favorite weekends of the year. (I have often said that if I could find someone to pay me to run retreats every weekend, I would leave parish ministry in a heartbeat. But…

The Light Shines in the Darkness

Email Devotion Advent 4 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. –John 1:5 It is one of my favorite services of the year, even though there are typically only about a dozen of us gathered for worship. I can cry a bit, and it isn’t a distraction for those…

Make Me Your Servant

Advent 2 New Day Sermon During the second week of Advent we remember promises of hope and love. How do you share these Advent promises with another?

Advent 1

New Day Sermon For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 The Message translates the title “Prince of Peace” as “Prince of Wholeness.” What does it mean that our Savior who…

Need A Word Of Hope?

Pentecost 26 traditional sermon The sky is falling! We’ve had a pretty dramatic year in the life of our country, haven’t we? I’m sure the last few weeks and months you have been regaled with the soap opera that has been our election cycle, to the point that this past Tuesday has been more of…

Is It Really the End?

New Day Sermon Amid talk from many corners about the end of the world, does the Christian have an alternative voice?