Easter Sunday It is with great joy that I proclaim to you all this day that Christ is Risen! He is Risen, Indeed! Halleluiah! After the long, dry dark season of Lent, it is so good to say that word again in worship. Halleluiah! So much beautiful celebration today as well, from breakfast with our…
Lent Wednesday March 21 Numbers 21:4-9 Romans 8:38-39 Where the Wild Things Are The text we heard from the Old Testament always reminds me of Where the Wild Things Are by Maruice Sendak. It is the story of a young boy named Max, his journey in the wilderness and his defeat of the wild things. The…
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,…
Shepherdess Writes 