If you were in worship this past Sunday you saw me weeping at the altar. Depending on where you were sitting yourself and what you could see, that might have made more or less sense to you. I want to tell you what I saw and why it moved me to tears.
Tag: testimony
Sermon: Sunday, October 19, 2014: Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Jesus, like any good teacher, won’t do all our work for us. Jesus won’t fall prey to the intellectual or political traps we lay that try to neutralize him by making his call to discipleship so ideological that it can be ignored. Instead, Jesus lays a question before us and demands that we really listen to it, that we consider its many angles, that we search our religious tradition, our scriptures and the witness of those who have gone before us. Then, having done that, that we tell the world what we think with courage and humility knowing that each of us is working out our own salvation with fear and trembling.
Sermon: Sunday, June 1, 2014: Seventh Sunday of Easter
Texts: Acts 1:6-14 + Psalm 68:1-10,32-35 + 1 Peter 4:12-14;5:6-11 + John 17:1-11 Happy Anniversary, St. Luke’s! On this very day, June 1, 1900 St. Luke’s was established as a congregation of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, one of the many predecessor bodies that over time merged into what … Continue reading Sermon: Sunday, June 1, 2014: Seventh Sunday of Easter