Sermons
Sermon: 16 Pentecost Proper 18 Year B: Sept. 8. 2024
Mark 7:24-37 Syrophoenician Woman
When I was in high school and college, I would never pray out loud, unscripted in front of anyone. I was afraid that my words would come out wrong or that I’d forget something or someone. I didn’t want that spotlight on me, but at the same time I wanted to be able to pray out ...
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Sermon: Sept. 1, 2024: Year B Proper 17
Jesus will say, “I saw that, and I love you.”
I’ve had quite a few opportunities to people watch in the past week and a half. Airports, wedding activities, dining out, and the best people watching on the planet: the Great Minnesota Get Together: the Minnesota State Fair. People do a lot of strange things in all these plac...
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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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