It is always a remarkable moment to stand here and see all of you looking back at me with the dark, cross-shaped smudges on your foreheads. It is like holding up the bread and wine at communion and seeing, in a sense, the people of God through communion; to see the body of Christ amongst…
Pentecost 25C Job 19:23-27a Luke 20:27-38 I love the cover of this week’s bulletin. It is a simple image with simple phrase; simple but so full of meaning. For to him, all of them are alive! [the image to the right is NOT the image from the bulletin. at publish, I could not get a…
Pentecost 20C Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4 2 Timothy 1:1-14 Luke 17:5-11 Oh, what a Sunday! Jesus is yet again sharing his cryptic advice with his disciples and telling some story about moving mulberry trees into the sea with mustard seeds and being served at the table by slaves. We also heard a part of a letter…
Strictly speaking, this poem (written for a post in October of 2010) isn’t about the gospel text for tomorrow and, therefore, isn’t in the sermon. If I remember correctly, it is actually about the healing of ten lepers in Luke 17. However, the parables of the lost sheep, lost coin, and lost son, two of which are in…
Pentecost 10C July 20 2013 Luke 11:1-13 Virtually every time we have a funeral or wedding at our church, there will be a non Lutheran person in attendance who will approach me with something they’ve noticed in the worship service. Most of the time, they are people who have been or are active in another…
Shepherdess Writes 