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A Sermon from John 3: 1-17
In 1962, a young man named Don Richardson traveled to the jungles of Netherlands New Guinea to live among the Sawi people. He was a missionary, with a singular goal: to tell them the story of Jesus. But it didn’t go very well.
Don quickly learned that the Sawi were a people who prized “treachery” as a main virtue. In their cultu...
Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7, Matthew 4:1-11
On March 9, 1522, Martin Luther climbed into the pulpit of St. Mary’s Church in Wittenberg and preached the first of eight sermons in a week’s time. It was, as it is for us this weekend, Invocavit – the First Sunday in Lent. Invocavit – from the opening word of the Psalm 91:15 introit, used in...
Psalm 51
Our psalm for this evening, Psalm 51, is understood across traditions as the ultimate model for confession and for spiritual restoration – what has been deemed as the chapter of repentance. A reminder, at the onset of Lent, that resurrection life begins not with empty tombs, but with woundedness and mourning – with the hon...
A sermon from Matthew 17: 1-9
Happy Valentine’s Weekend!
Today, people around the world celebrate love. But over the centuries, we have forgotten the history of Valentine’s Day. Well, here it is:
The Roman Emperor in the third century AD Claudius II Gothicus, a hardened soldier who believed Rome’s strength in war depended on stro...