Which of your gifts have you been asked to leave outside so that you could be allowed in? What has it cost you to cut off parts of yourself? What did that feel like?
Sermon: Sunday, May 29, 2016: 2nd Sunday after Pentecost
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 15, 2016: Day of Pentecost
And so I dare to prophesy: our dreams for the liberation of humankind, our dreams of justice, of human dignity, of peace are meant for this time and this place in history. We are the ones that are called by the Spirit to embody the rush of justice, the roar of love,the whisper of peace and compassion, that carries the words of hope and joy to a broken and grieving world...
Sermon: Sunday, May 8, 2016: Seventh Sunday of Easter
As the new life first discovered at the empty tomb pivots toward the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, we are being reminded over and over again that resurrection always goes hand in hand with reconciliation, that the Holy Spirit cannot bear segregation.
By Proclamation 