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What is a Weed?
Matthew 13.24-30 Who are you in this parable? When human beings hear a story, they have a tendency to imagine the story from the perspective of a particular character, the one they feel they can relate to the most, that they think they can understand. Usually, they want to be the hero. They view themselves as Jesus, as the storyteller, or as the Master who gives the wise advice. In this…
Let It Be
Matthew 11.16-19 The yoke of discipleship Music is at the heart of our church. Through song and stories, our faith has been passed down from generation to generation. Music helps us to remember and at times helps us to forget. It can draw us in. And it can push us away. It can help us to form relationships and make new friends, or it can create generational gaps. 16 “But to what will I compare…
Child-Like Friendship
Matthew 11:25-30 I was presented with an interesting conundrum this week. Next week, I will be filling in for another pastor, so I will actually be preaching the sermon I wrote. I had planned out a title and chosen a scripture, but had not yet written the sermon. The pastor contacted me to let me know that I would be preaching on the same passage they were preaching on two weeks prior. Most…
Hard Faith
Genesis 22:1-14 The testing of Abraham For the most part, I am a liturgical preacher. It means I try to preach on the liturgy as provided by the Revised Common Lectionary. The Revised Common Lectionary is an ecumenical project, which means it includes Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, and several others. It resulted in a 3-year cycle of Scripture readings that…
Value
Matthew 10.24-39 The cost of discipleship One of the hardest things to accept in life is that we are valuable, but we are not invaluable both as individuals and as groups. No human life has more value than another. All are equal. In my mind, in a perfect world, every single human being makes the same hourly wage. It doesn’t matter whether you are a doctor, lawyer, tax collector, or a…
The Greatest Sin
Genesis 18.1-15 (21:1-7) The call of Abraham and Sarah In Matthew 22:37, Jesus sums up for us very nicely the greatest commandment ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ In verse 39, he even gives us the second greatest commandment ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ But nowhere does God or Jesus ever tell us what the…
SINNERS CAN’T DANCE
Mathew 9:9-13, 18-26 Christ heals a woman and raises a girl When you think of a sinner, who do you think of? What images of human identity pop into your mind? An addict? A drug-dealer? A thief or maybe a criminal of some kind? Are they dirty? Wearing dark baggy clothes? Is their hair too long or their skirt too short? Are they tattooed or heavily pierced? We all have stereotypes in our minds…
Spiritual Constipation
Psalm 8 Divine Majesty and Human Dignity (NRSVUE) To the leader: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. 1 O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.2 Out of the mouths of babes and infantsyou have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I look at your heavens, the…
Instead of Stop, Listen
Numbers 11.24-30 The spirit rests on Israel’s leaders What?!? You can’t do church there! You can’t pray there! You can’t read your Bible there! You can’t preach there! When did we become obsessed that church should only take place within the walls of a church building? Around… 5000 years ago. Do we have any Biblical examples to support the idea that worship and communion with God should take…
Christ's Prayer for Us
John 17.1-11 Christ’s prayer for his disciples Today’s pericope is titled “Christ’s prayer for his disciples.” Christ’s wish for his disciples is that they be protected so that they might be one with each other as Christ is one with the Father. Christ wanted the disciples to have the same relationship with each other as Christ has with God. Love God and love your neighbor as yourself. Christ…
Us and Them
The God who calls each sheep by name has called us all here today. We come today, celebrating God’s love for all the sheep of the world. The Good Shepherd, who has many flocks, gave his life for all of them, for us. We come today, thanking Jesus for his witness and his teaching. The Shepherding Spirit moves through us, uniting flocks together as one, bringing us new hope. We come today,…
How Not to Disciple in 5 Easy Steps
Luke 24. 13-35 Eating with the risen Christ It is good to be aware of your own biases and how they both blind you to things and make you notice things that others don’t. Some, for instance, will notice this entire piece is written with a heavy level of sarcasm. Others will get bogged down in their own ridiculousness and take everything at face value. It will be fun. Maybe people will actually…
Choose Peace
John 20:19-31– Peace Be With You He is risen! So, why do we care? Because we are an Easter people! But what does that mean? It means we have white paraments for a little while! What does that mean? White is the color of celebration. It is the color of purity, light, glory and joy. We only use white to mark significant events that shape our understanding as Jesus Christ. One of the things we…
The Choice
I wasn’t feeling too Eastery this week, so I didn’t get a sermon written until this morning. That happens as a pastor. Sometimes, you’re just not feeling the spirit move. Congregations assume that writing a sermon is easy because, let’s face it, writing one sermon is easy. I hope everyone who hears or reads this is aware that I can write an incredible sermon, and, if you’re only reading it, they…
Steadfast Love
Psalm 36.5-11 Refuge under the shadow of your wings As Spring slowly begins to arrive in northern Michigan, I am contemplating what I would want to be new and changed, given a rebirth at the end of this Holy Week. It’s been a tumultuous time in my life. So much so that it is hard to believe it has already been, yet only been, a little less than 6 months since my husband I relocated from West…
Faith is a Pencil
Psalm 118.1-2, 19-29 The Passover Praise Psalm and Matthew 21:1-11 Jesus enters Jerusalem An urban legend states that during the 1960’s Space race between Russia and the United States, the US spent over a billion dollars developing a pen that could write in zero gravity while the Russians just used a pencil. This is incorrect; the Fisher Pen Company invested only 1 million dollars in developing…
Coulda Should Woulda
John 11:17-37 Since I started preaching every Sunday, I have discovered something profound. There are a lot of problems in this world and just when you think you’ve got one of them solved, it seems to create another one. We are born into this world completely helpless. If our mother were alone and to die within the first five years of our life, we would die shortly thereafter. We spend much of…