Sermons

Read Mark 10:35-45 So middle school right? We’ve all been there. It’s really important to be cool in middle school. To be popular, to be...

Read Mark 9:28-50 At the end of Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith, there’s a scene where Obi Wan Kenobi and Anakin...

Read Mark 8:27-38 So. Mark’s Gospel is only 16 chapters. It is the shortest of the Gospels and here at the end of chapter 8, we are...

Read Mark 7:24-37 The story we encounter in our gospel lesson today where Jesus meets the Syrophenecian woman is one that can be a bit...

Read Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 They say every little girl growing up wants to be a princess. Dreams about fancy castles, Disney really...

Read John 6:56-69 and Ephesians 6:10-20 Grace and peace to you all this morning. This is the last Sunday of the Bread of life discourse...

Read Ephesians 5:15-20 In 1998, a great Disney Pixar movie came out, “A Bug’s Life”. Maybe you have seen it…. I was obsessed. Like more...

Read Ephesians 4:25-5:2 A few years ago, I spent a year living in Jersey City, New Jersey to for my internship, as an intern pastor at a...

Read Ephesians 4:1-16 On our journey this week in the Letter of Ephesians, we continue to learn more about this vast love of Christ. And...

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,...