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Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached today, the 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time. The gospel reading was Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26. You can view the sermon here. I want to talk about the Pharisees today. The Pharisees show up frequently in the gospels. And there’s a common pattern to these stories. In…
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Doubt is Wonderful (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached June 4, 2023, the Holy Trinity. The gospel reading I preached on was Matthew 28:16-20. There’s something about this story that many people have found surprising. There’s one detail that theologians and church leaders over the centuries have tried to explain away, tried to work…
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Longing for God (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning, the Fifth Sunday of Easter. The reading I preached on was 1 Peter 2:2-10. Our second reading from 1 Peter says this: Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation – if indeed…
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Our Redeemer Lives (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached today, the Fourth Sunday of Easter. The text I preached on was the First Reading, Acts 2:42-47. As you might discern from the sermon, we sang the hymn, “I Know that My Redeemer Lives,” split up across different portions of worship today. Today is the…
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We Worship in Hope (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached today, the Second Sunday of Easter. The gospel reading was John 20:19-31. Today is the Second Sunday of Easter. In the church year, Easter isn’t one day. It’s a seven-week season. The resurrection of Christ is so big that we celebrate for seven weeks, a…
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Strengthened by Sacrament (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached on Maundy Thursday, April 6, 2023. The gospel text was John 13:1-17, 31b-35. Every now and then someone will say to me “I don’t go to church because I don’t get anything out of it.” I never know what to say to that: “I’m sorry?”…
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Repentance, Death, and Life (Sermon)
This is an adapted version of the sermon I preached this morning, the Fifth Sunday in Lent. The gospel reading was John 11:1-45. If you would like to see this sermon, you can click here. Our fifth Lenten discipline is repentance. And I need to define what that word means. We often think of the…
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Breaking Through (Sermon)
This is an adapted version of the sermon I preached this morning, the Fourth Sunday in Lent. The gospel reading was John 9:1-42. It’s printed below throughout the sermon, because of the particular way I preached today. 1As Jesus walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned,…
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Hope Abides (Sermon)
On Sunday, March 12, 2023, I led a worship service called “The Darkness May Linger, But Hope Abides.” The theme of the service was to honestly lament all that we’d lost over the last three years in the COVID-19 pandemic, and also to proclaim the hope that God provides. This is an adapted form of…
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The Emptying Christ (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning, the Third Sunday in Lent. The gospel reading was John 4:5-42. A few weeks ago, when Lent began on Ash Wednesday, I invited you again to the discipline of Lent – self-examination and repentance, prayer and fasting, sacrificial giving and works of love…
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