Sermons from October 2024
Sunday October 27th, 2024 Worship
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…
Sunday October 20nd, 2024 Worship
I have never thought about table seating arrangements so much as I have in planning our wedding. Especially when it comes to the order in which our wedding party will be arranged on either side of us and where our families will sit because they are just big enough to require multiple tables, but we don’t want anyone to feel slighted. Either we have half empty tables, or…
Sunday October 6th, 2024 Worship
I always seem to get the difficult texts the week that I’m out of the office and have less time to prepare my sermons. I was so excited to glance at the sermon texts on Monday morning to find Jesus’ teaching on divorce, instantly becoming envious of all my colleagues who opted to celebrate St. Francis this weekend and do a blessing of the pets instead. I’ll have to…
Sunday September 29th, 2024 Worship
There are two books that I’ve only read part of, they are still on my list to fully read sometime, but that both have had a profound impact on the way that I think about the Biblical laws and what it means to be acceptable before God. They are The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs and A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans. Both books are designed in…