As Lindsey noted last week, Easter merits an entire liturgical season. Resurrection is a lot to handle, and so we get seven weeks to mull over the empty tomb, Jesus walking through walls, breaking bread, and eating fish. We get time to digest this feast of a story, and we need that. Digesting the story … read
Last Sunday, in the afterglow of a still Easter morning, after the hot crossed buns and egg hunting, the coffee and the blisters from shoes we hadn’t worn in a long time, at home, on my couch, I saw the Lord. I wasn’t trying to see him. I was very tired from the eggs and … read
We are so glad you are here this morning, “we” being the pastors and the staff and the leaders of the congregation. Thank you for taking time out of this blessed sunshine to come to church, to hear a good story, to sing and pray and probably laugh. May you know blessings today, ones that … read
“Bringing Hope to Despair.” That’s a sermon title-ish rendition of today’s line in the Franciscan peace prayer we’re focusing on for Lent: “Where there is despair, let me sow hope.” The traditional way to set up this sermon would be to help you see the despair before making the case for hope. But do I … read
If you have ever wondered to yourself, “How can all this God stuff possibly be true?” then you have experienced doubt. If you have ever said to yourself, “Jesus is my Savior,” then you have experienced faith. And if you have ever echoed the words of the man whose child Jesus healed, “Lord, I believe; … read
Perhaps some of you, like me, were told when growing up that you couldn’t use the word hate. In my family, it was a little more specific: we couldn’t say we hated a person, as in “I hate my sister” or “I hate you.” So when I declared unequivocally that I hated canned peas, I … read