Sermons on Reformation

As I was preparing for this service, I was thinking back to my own Confirmation service, which was unbelievably 13 years ago now. Now, I need to remember that I went to a large church, so my confirmation class was about 50ish kids, if not more. And, I remember the next Sunday after that Confirmation service, my pastor was surprised to see me because “no one ever shows up…

When people find out that I am a pastor, it’s often met with a variety of reactions from “that’s really interesting” (tones may vary) to awkward silence to people asking a lot of questions about what I do and why. This last one is often the most common. I have been asked many, many times about why…

One of the retired pastors who served on my care committee during internship always liked to both seriously and jokingly (I think) say that I was more Lutheran than Martin Luther! This was always great fun for me when we consider that Martin Luther really didn’t want a denomination named after himself, after all, he saw himself as a worm undeserving of such thing because…