Lent 4B Numbers 21:4-9, John 3:14-21 In honor of St Patrick ’s Day I’ve seen lots of green, heard some wonderful Irish music and even a touch of Irish language. I saw a really cute cartoon with St Patrick in the driver’s seat of a car that was just crammed full of snakes. Each…
Lenten Wednesday Service WWGD What would Gibbs Do? I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the show NCIS, but it is one of my favorites. It’s a fictional drama about Naval Criminal Investigation Services and one of the primary characters is Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Gibbs is sort of a cross between an…
Lent 3B Exodus 20:1-17 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 John 2:13-22 As I worked on my sermon for this week I remembered a somewhat heated conversation from a few years ago about this Gospel text. It started as a friendly debate amongst friends about how to preach on Jesus’ cleansing of the temple, but in the end,…
Lent Wednesday 2 Luke 23:39-43 Revelation 5:1-10 Our theme for the Wednesdays throughout Lent is seeing God in the unexpected places. To that end, I give you this story: Once upon a time, there was a little town not too far from here with people who were not too different from us called Sunny Forest.…
Lent Wednesday week 1 Isaiah 44:1-5, Mark 1:9-15 There is a Lutheran pastor in Denver, CO with a unique ministry. The worshiping community is called House for All, Sinners and Saints. Pastor Nadia is a very unique person herself for several reasons not the least of which are her long, slender arms covered in tattoos.…
Shepherdess Writes 