Dec 28, 2021
Jesus is twelve years old in our Gospel reading today. Having traveled to Jerusalem for the Festival of Passover, the family is on their way back home with a caravan of friends and family. After a day's journey, Jesus is nowhere to be found. Mary and Joseph return to Jerusalem to look for him. We, also, can lose Jesus....
Dec 25, 2021
As we observe the Nativity of Our Lord this year, there are lots of shadows and darkness around. The darkness of disease is still real, disrupting our gatherings and spreading through a new variant. The darkness of division seems to work its way ever deeper in families, communities, nations as we are all at each...
Nov 29, 2021
While celebrations and decorations begin to shape the holiday landscape spreading a form of cheer everywhere, the Church declares on this first Sunday of Advent – “The End is Near!” We know that in our bones. As Jesus points out the wars, pestilence, destruction, and cosmic threats of his age, they all sound a...
Nov 1, 2021
On this Reformation Day, we remember the search for truth that Martin Luther experienced and the conflict it generated within the church. Whenever the church drifts from the truth, a reforming is necessary. But what is truth? What does it look like and act like? Jesus tells us of Truth and how to find it.
Oct 25, 2021
Today's sermon is based on Mark 10:46-52 which tells the story of Jesus healing a blind man. Bartimaeus wants eyes to see so he can follow Jesus and the spiritual eyes that tell him Jesus is the Messiah. Through the eyes of Jesus we will see the world differently. Jesus gives us the sight to see the world as...