Sermon for Pentecost 2A July 3, 2011 Zechariah 9:9-12, Psalm 145, Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Several years ago I assisted with a large scale church production which could have rivaled that of Hollywood but was modestly called Vacation Bible School. In this VBS, it was my job to help portray several bible stories with little skits…
Since before I even graduated from seminary, I have been pondering the possibility of getting a DMin. What is a DMin you say? Excellent question! A DMin is guitar chord. Also, a DMin is a Doctor of Ministry. I’m actually talking about the later. A DMin is a terminal degree (not that you are terminated after you acquire it…. but that…
…with his American Express Platinum card. Yeah, right. This week, a friend of mine was talking about something she saw on a couple of her friends’ statuses [on our favorite social network site]. The first was a person thanking God for her child who had suffered a significant health crisis and although she was not…
It was not the best day. It was Trinity Sunday and I felt highly incompetent trying to ‘explain’ the unexplainable in a sermon. If you ever want to have your intellect humbled, try to explain the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, one God, The Holy Trinity without committing heresy and do so in under fifteen…
I came upon this post quite by accident this morning while looking for something else entirely and I found something about it to be quite profound. This line in particular “And perhaps mercy and creation aren’t really that different.” There’s some really good stuff there about mercy and what we Lutherans might call grace. It is well…
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