Sermon Archive (Page 17)

I spent all of Friday this week in a training learning about what it means to be a Coach in the ELCA. Now, it’s different than what we think of for sports coaching, but it is still meant to help people be the most whole selves that they can be. So people come to coaches with a specific and timely issue and together we figure out the next steps forward; this is especially…

Whenever I read anything from Jonah, my mind goes back to my Confirmation days when we had to act out different Bible stories and my group was assigned the story of Jonah. We had about 5 minutes to act out the whole 4 chapters, including being eaten by the fish a.k.a a sleeping bag, and I was somehow cast as Jonah… I try not to take it personally. Because, for better or…

Oops, ouch! Now, out of context, this may sound like phrases I mutter to myself when I accidentally run into different objects all the time, which is fairly accurate, but actually it was one of the core community agreements in my days of interfaith training. I have made a lot of community agreements in my day, especially when I served as a nation-wide training coach in…