Sermon for Synod Assembly Worship 2024 Mark 10:46-52 St. Andrews, Mahtomedi Grace and peace to you from God the Father, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN. He didn’t have a lawn chair or an overturned, five-gallon bucket from Home Depot to sit on, or...
Spring Ministerium 2024 Christ the King, New Brighton Ephesians 4: 1-7, 11-16 Grace and peace to you in the name of the Triune God. AMEN. Weren’t we just together? It feels like yesterday when we blessed one another in the vocations to which we have been called. The...
Homily for Toolkit 2024 Faith, Forest Lake Ephesians 4:11-13 Grace and peace to you in the name of the Triune God. AMEN. In the evening, when I am home from the office and have eaten my supper, there is always more work still to do. Dishes in the sink. Laundry to be...
Indeed, you delight in truth deep within me, and would have me know wisdom deep within. Psalm 51:6 (ELW) I don’t know about you, but my sense of meteorological seasons is all messed up this year. That is not a complaint, but it is disorienting to have a Minnesota...
During my senior year in high school, we read Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from A Birmingham Jail in our English class. As part of a class project, we planned and led an assembly for other seniors on the yearning for peace and the rationale behind non-violent...
During my recent visit to the Iringa Diocese in Tanzania, I was there on the day that bicycles and motorcycles were given to several dozen pastors and evangelists to aid their travel between preaching points. During the chapel service on the day these gifts were to be...
Close of Church Council Fall Meeting 2023 Matthew 25:1-13 The Lutheran Center, Chicago Grace and peace to you in the mercy of the Most Holy God. AMEN. Things are coming to an end. Have you noticed? This meeting, which is the last for some of us. This season before...
Bishop’s Theological Conference 2023 Arrowwood Resort, Alexandria Philippians 4:1-9, John 19:25-27 Grace and peace to you in the name of the Living God. AMEN. I didn’t know this passage from Philippians 4 very well when I was ordained, but the preacher at my...
We are not the first generation to be concerned about the future of the church. Five centuries ago, during the last of the “great rummage sale” eras as voiced by Phyllis Tickel[1], leaders in the Lutheran Reformation also wrestled with profound questions of...
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