Scholtes-Blog

Month: October 2022

  • My First Podcast Interview Released!

    My First Podcast Interview Released!

    I’m happy to announce that you can now hear my interview with Paul Granger on the “Where Did You See God?” podcast. Paul has a great podcast where he has conversations with all sorts of people, “exploring how we can see God in the most unexpected and counter-intuitive places.” Sounded like an appropriate place to…

  • Real Confession (Sermon)

    Real Confession (Sermon)

    This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning, October 23, 2022. The gospel text was Luke 18:9-14. There was once a Sunday School teacher who taught this story to her students. After telling the story, she helped the kids to understand where the Pharisee had gone wrong, by thinking he was…

  • Wrestling with God (Sermon)

    Wrestling with God (Sermon)

    This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning. The texts I preached on were Genesis 32:22-31 and Luke 18:1-8. We were also celebrating “Harvest Home.” Walter was a wrestler. Well, kind of. In a way. I mean, really, he was a farmer, and he was one of the most hard-working people…

  • Listening to the “Other Side”

    Listening to the “Other Side”

    I am politically left of center. On some issues, such as LGBT rights, I’m certainly liberal. On others, such as economic issues, I’m less convicted, but I still lean left on most things. Our current polarized society feels like it’s divided into two tribes: The Liberals and The Conservatives. Or call them whatever you like…Progressives…

  • I Am So Grateful (Sermon)

    I Am So Grateful (Sermon)

    This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached Sunday, October 9, 2022. The gospel reading was Luke 17:11-19. The seed of this sermon was an article I wrote for last week’s edition of my newsletter Biblia Luna. Have you checked out Biblia Luna? It’s filled with my thoughts on the intersection of faith…

  • A Seed is All the Seed it Needs (Sermon)

    A Seed is All the Seed it Needs (Sermon)

    This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached on Sunday, October 2, 2022. The gospel text was Luke 17:5-10. Now, right before this passage, Jesus had given his disciples some hard commands. He just told them they had to avoid being a stumbling block to anyone, and he told them that if someone…