Sermons from 2024 (Page 3)

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…

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…

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…

I have a confession to make… When I was a little kid, I often got in trouble for my desire to always be first. I was the kid that would race to the bus stop each morning just to beat the other two kids onto the bus, and I also possibly pushed them aside sometimes to get there. Mind you, these were even kids I considered friends. And, I was always the kid that was sent…