Sermons
Sermon: Proper 15 Year B 8.18.2024
Ephesians 5:15-20
Last Sunday, before the service began, Daniel whispered to me that he wanted to say something about the music for the day. In my welcome, I mentioned to the congregation that I thought he wanted to say that some of you might not be familiar with some of the hymn choices for th...
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Sermon: Proper 14, Year B, August 11, 2024
It’s in being fed the holy food that sustains us
In a couple of weeks, I will be officiating the wedding of one of the young men I consider to be another son. He is just a few months younger than our daughter, so his mom and I were pregnant together, as we were with our first pregnancies. Our families’ lives have been closel...
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Sermon: 9 Pentecost; Proper 13 8/4/2024
I am the bread of Life
Celebrating St. James’ day with us last Sunday, Bishop Terry reminded us that there is no asterisk that excludes anyone from the love of God. What a bold statement of the broadness of God’s love in this world. That God, as a 1980’s poster may have said, “doesn’t make junk.” We...
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Sermon: Proper 11 Year B 7/21/2024
Mark 6:30-34; 53-56: “Rest a while”
Jesus said to them, “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” The disciples had just returned after being sent out two by two, without extra supplies, trusting that they would be cared for in each place they went, to teach and to heal. They had been i...
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Sermon: 7th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 9, Year B, Mark 6:1-13
“small town boy made good!”
My high school class rarely has a class reunion. We’ve relied on the “All-Years” reunion that happens every three or so years. Downtown Excelsior, Minnesota is overtaken by graduates from Minnetonka High School. The next one is at the end of this month. At one of those all-yea...
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