Sermon in part. This week’s sermon is a dialog with the congregation about psalm 63 and is only partially posted here for obvious reasons. Lent 3C Isaiah 55:1-9 Psalm 63:1-8 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 Luke 13:1-9 Oh say, poet, what you do? I praise. But what about the deadly and monstrous? How do you keep going,…
This past week our Sunday school began, at the request of a participant, a study of women in the bible. Since I am a “lady pastor” as some wish to call me, I have always shied away from teaching many classes exclusively about women in scripture largely because I am concerned that such a thing…
Lent 2C Philippians 3:17-4:1 Luke 13:31-35 I have always thought that Lent was an odd season. I grew up in a church that had little to no observation of this purple season and did not really come to know it as an important part of the church year until I was an adult. It is full…
One of the best things about being a parish pastor and a campus pastor working with young adults is getting to see the gifts for ministry in others. Even more than this, it is getting to help people discover their God given gifts and discern their best places to serve in ministry. Along with this…
Every year, on the Sunday before Christ the King, I am keenly aware of the changing seasons. Both the seasons around us in the natural world and the seasons of the church year. This year, as with this final Sunday before CtK every year, I will again be giving this poem as my sermon. I…
Shepherdess Writes 