Texts: Ezekiel 17:22-24 • Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15 • 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, 14-17 • Mark 4:26-34 By the saving power of Jesus. Amen. I was sitting in the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport yesterday afternoon with a group of Lutherans discussing Battlestar Gallactica, Harry Potter, and the new Terminator Salvation and somehow, of course, we began talking theology. … Continue reading Sermon: Sunday, June 14, 2009: 2nd Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 6)
Author: Erik Christensen
Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in "Skevantson" (the unofficial overlap of Evanston and Skokie in Chicago's North Shore).
Sermon: Sunday, May 31, 2009: Day of Pentecost
Texts: Acts 2:1-21 • Psalm 104:24-34, 35b • Romans 8:22-27 • John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Not long after St. Luke’s established itself as a congregation in 1900 (an anniversary we’ll be celebrating next weekend on Anniversary Sunday), another outbreak of the Holy Spirit was occurring across the ocean in the Welsh town of New Quay … Continue reading Sermon: Sunday, May 31, 2009: Day of Pentecost
Message: Proven wrong…
The drama of the passage from Acts assigned for this Sunday, with its rushing winds and tongues of flame, is the most familiar image associated with Pentecost. Where God once confused human language and scattered human communities across the face of the earth as a response to human pride and isolationism (Gen 11:1-9), at Pentecost … Continue reading Message: Proven wrong…
By Proclamation 