Sunday, September 3, 2017: Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Jesus is asking the disciples to examine their lives and discern the ways that life under the empire has forced or enticed them into settling for something less than their full humanity.

Sermon: Monday, August 28, 2017: Opening Worship for LSTC “Welcome (Back) Week”

What is the confession you hold in your heart? Do you, like the prophet Isaiah and the apostle Peter, worry that you may not be good enough for what lies ahead? Are you scared of what people might think once they really get to know you? Do you wonder if you have what it takes to make it in the classroom, or in front of the candidacy committee, or at the faculty meeting? Do you struggle with the language of faith you’ve inherited? Do you struggle with the English language? Does your past make you an unlikely candidate for your future?

Sermon: Sunday, August 27, 2017: Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

God is calling out to you right now to see yourselves as God sees you, as beloved children of the living God, anointed in your own baptisms and called to witness at a moment like this — when once again violent powers seek to erase the history of our land and remake it in their image. In this moment, we are not waiting for anyone who has not already been sent. You and I, baptized into the death and resurrection of the only messiah we need, are the ones we’ve been waiting for.