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Face to Face with the Cross (Good Friday)
I preached four times this weekend, during the “Great Three Days” worship service that lasts from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. In current Evangelical Lutheran liturgical understanding, this is one long service that begins with Maundy Thursday and ends with the Vigil of Easter. Click here for Maundy Thursday. This is my Good Friday sermon. Click here…
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Do This in Re-Membrance of Me (Maundy Thursday)
I preached four times this weekend, during the “Great Three Days” worship service that lasts from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. In current Evangelical Lutheran liturgical understanding, this is one long service that begins with Maundy Thursday and ends with the Vigil of Easter. This is my Maundy Thursday sermon. Click here for Good Friday. Click…
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Unbind him, and let him loose!
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning, the Fifth Sunday in Lent. It was my first Sunday back after my twelve-week medical leave. The gospel reading was John 11:1-45, which I recited from a paraphrase of scripture called The Message. It is good to be back from my medical leave, and…
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Get up. Do not fear.
This morning, I had the opportunity to preach at St. Andrew’s Ev. Lutheran Church in Perkasie, where I was Director of Education/Pastoral Assistant from 2000-2005. St. Andrew’s is celebrating 150 years of ministry this year, and I am one of several former pastors and other staff members they are inviting to return this year. Here…
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Hope we can Count On
This is an adapted form of my sermon from Sunday, January 1, 2017, the First Sunday of Christmas. The gospel reading was Matthew 2:13-23, the flight to Egypt and the slaughter of the Holy Innocents. That morning, I also baptized two young children. I’ve changed their names for this blog version of the sermon. Well.…
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Christmas is for You, and other Traditional Frog Christmas Songs
For the past five years, I have preached rather “special” sermons on Christmas Eve at Prince of Peace. What makes them special is that I have a special visitor…Kermit the Frog. You see, it turns out that I can do a remarkable impression of Kermit, so I’ve tried to find a way to make use…
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The Secret of Christmas (Blue Christmas Sermon)
Every year, our church offers a “Blue Christmas” service, specially designed for those who find the holidays difficult. This was my sermon for Blue Christmas 2016, preached on Sunday afternoon, December 18. We gather here today because we are finding Christmas difficult this year. There are many possible reasons for that. Perhaps someone you love…
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Dear John
This is an adapted version of the sermon I preached this morning, the Third Sunday of Advent. The lectionary reading was Matthew 11:2-11. I think that normally, John the Baptist is pretty hard to relate to. It’s hard to put ourselves in his shoes, hard to connect with his story. Here’s a guy who spent…
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The Phantom Innkeeper
This is an adapted version of the sermon I preached on Christ the King, November 20, 2016. The gospel reading was Luke 23:33-43. That may have been a surprising reading to hear. Today is the final Sunday of the church year, a day called Christ the King. We might expect to hear about Jesus seated…
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Jesus Said it Would Be Like This
This is an adapted version of the sermon I preached on Sunday, November 13, 2016. It was the first Sunday after the 2016 presidential election, and I tried to address some election-related concerns without being partisan or inflammatory. The gospel reading for the day was Luke 21:5-19. “Vince said it would be like this.” When…
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