This is the sermon that I wrote for Good Friday, 2024, that ironically I “forgot” to preach. You see, I’d written it, I printed it out, I took it to church, and…it stayed in my office. I didn’t even realize I’d blown past the part in the bulletin that said “Sermon” until we were into […]
Maundy Thursday, March 28, 2024 – Mark 14: 17-31 Mark 14: 32-50 Also Psalm 116: 1-2, 12-19, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 When Jesus and his followers gathered the night before he was crucified, they weren’t just meeting up for a friendly meal. They were marking the feast of the Passover, the Jewish commemoration of their ancestors’
Sunday, March 24, 2024 – Mark 15:1-39 [40-47] Also Isaiah 50:4-9a, Psalm 31:9-16, Phillippians 2:5-11, Processional Gospel, John 12:12-16 In the great archetypal stories of myth, fairy tale, and sacred texts, we see represented the deepest truths about the human condition that can only be told symbolically because of the limits of human language and
Sunday, March 17, 2024 – John 12:20-33, Also Jeremiah 31:31-34, Psalm 51:1-12,Hebrews 5:5-10 We’re surrounded by plants. We walk on lawns of green grass. We’re sometimes shaded by tall trees. Flowers bloom everywhere we look. Even in our kitchens, we see food that came from plants – plants that began as seeds somewhere. We probably
Sunday, March 10, 2024 – John 3:14-21, Also Numbers 21:4-9, Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22, Ephesians 2:1-10 There are a lot of wonderful themes in today’s reading. I could talk about light, and I’m sure there will be sermons about light, but today I want to talk about snakes. I have to admit, I am interested in
Sunday, March 3, 2024 – John 2:13-22 Also Exodus 20:1-17, Psalm 19, 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 God’s Power on the Mountain On the third new moon after the Israelites had left Egypt, they entered the wilderness of Sinai. And God calls Moses up onto the mountain and tells him the words that he is to speak
Sunday, February 25, 2024 – Mark 8:31-38 Also Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16, Psalm 22:23-31, Romans 4:13-25 After I graduated with my bachelor’s degree in communications from Purdue University, nothing seemed to go the way I’d planned it. I originally thought I’d move to Florida to work for Walt Disney World, but that dream got cut off
Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024 – Mark 9:2-9, 2 Kings 2:1-12, Psalm 50:1-6, 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Last week, I talked about what it must have been like to be near Jesus. To directly experience that pure love of God. We can’t know in our current day what it was like to walk with Jesus, because he’s
I had to say goodbye to my beloved little terrier mix, Bobby, on November 17, 2023. I knew the time was coming near, but foreknowledge is no help when your heart is breaking. I’d had to say goodbye to my beloved lab mix, Cotton, in May of 2021, and that was still a tender wound.
Sunday, February 4, 2024 – Mark 1:29-39, Isaiah 40:21-31, Psalm 147:1-11, 20c, 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 In Jesus’ Presence Do you ever wonder what it must have been like to be in Jesus’ presence? What would it have felt like to be near him, to walk beside him, to hear his voice, to be touched by
