Sermons

Read Ephesians 3:14-21 So last week on vacation with my mother and my brother, we went to an aquarium. A totally normal thing for a...

Read 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 A quote from the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington, DC about a song, “Patriotic songs have...

Read Mark 5:21-43 She gets up this morning and something is just different. She can feel it . She can’t really say why yet but as she...

New Year’s Eve in African American congregations is celebrated a little differently than putting on party hats, toasting champagne, and...

Read Mark 3:20-35 In May and June, there’s a lot of talk about family with mother’s day and father’s day. In our gospel lesson for this...

Read Acts 2:1-21 After college I did this program through the ELCA called Young Adults in Global Mission. The program at the time took...

Read Luke 24:44-53 Today we celebrate Jesus’ ascension (well really it was on Thursday). This ascension is his is joining back up with...

Read John 15:9-17 A few years ago on Mother’s Day, I was specifically asked to preach about Mother’s Day. I struggled with this a lot....

Read Acts 8:26-40 A few years ago when my nephew was very little, he was at church one Sunday with just my mom. When she went forward for...

Happy Earth Day! In the first season of the Big Bang Theory, Leonard and Sheldon are having one of their arguments. Where Leonard says,...

Read Luke 24:36b-48 So growing up I played soccer my entire life all the way through my sophomore year in college where I maxed out on...

Read Mark 16:1-8 So I’m a fan of fantasy book series. Most have like 3 books in them in the young adult series. I’m not ashamed, for my...

Mark 11:1-11 “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna!” These are the famous words that we hear the...

Based on Genesis 37, 39-47 This morning, I am going to veer away from our lessons assigned for today to talk about our final Sunday in...

Read Numbers 21:4-9 and John 3:14-21 So I used to do this fun social experiment in college when I was walking around the campus and as I...

Read Exodus 20:1-17 In my college town there was a couple, Jane and Basil, that owned a bunch of rental houses and apartments. Lots of...

Have you ever heard of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch? That there is a giant patch of garbage all stuck together in the pacific ocean...

Read Mark 1:9-15 Groundhog Day happened three weeks ago. But some people compare this time of pandemic to Groundhog Day: not the...

Read Mark 9:2-9 Each year right before lent starts, we have Transfiguration Sunday. Jesus atop a mountain in the presence of his...