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,…
As we approach the end of the year, I am, like many people, reflecting on 2011. It has been a year of great things—joy and sadness. Baptized a baby (and that’s always an extra big deal in a tiny congregation), graduated 6 campus ministry students and sent two of them off to seminary (Lutheran Theological…
O dawn of the east, brightness of light eternal, and sun of justice: come, and enlighten those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. Amen That prayer is from around the fourth century and it was and is traditionally prayed on December 21st. It is part of a series of daily prayers…
Sermon for Advent Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Philippians 1:15-18a Lately I’ve heard a lot of people say things like: Keep the Christ in Christmas! Or: Keep the Mass in Christmas—go to Mass and worship on Christmas eve and Christmas day! Or: Keep the X [the Greek letter] in X-mas because the early Christians spoke Greek!…
Shepherdess Writes 