This Sunday is Homecoming Sunday, our annual fall kick off. We’ve sent letters out to members and friends of St. Luke’s scattered across the city and nation asking for people’s prayers and presence in worship. It’s also Holy Cross Day – so expect to hear tunes and texts that are both familiar and challenging. The … Continue reading Message: Come Home!
Category: Messages
Message: Practicing What You Preach…
This coming Sunday’s readings speak to God’s absolute impartiality along those lines that we might use to separate ourselves one from another, as well as highlighting the difficulty of practicing what you preach. “Listen and understand,” Jesus says. “It’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the … Continue reading Message: Practicing What You Preach… →
Message: Digging in the Dirt
The garden plots outside the parish hall are exploding with life. Take the plantings our landscapers installed and the wild seedlings carried in by dogs and squirrels, add these last few weeks of sun and rain and constant watering, and you get greenery of all sorts breaking the surface. As I come and go from … Continue reading Message: Digging in the Dirt →