Sermons by Pastor Sara Funkhouser (Page 53)

When I was first reading through the assigned readings for this week, I read through them all and couldn’t understand what it was that connected the Gospel to the other readings… It was after thinking this through for several minutes that I realized that I had accidentally read the wrong Gospel passage. In case anyone is wondering, I do have recurring nightmares that I…

Are you a sinner or a trespasser? This is how one of the pastors I know would half-jokingly, half-seriously end visits with people in order to determine which version of the Lord’s Prayer they were accustomed to using. Because whether it was called Our Father, the Lord’s Prayer the traditional or contemporary version, we have all learned similar versions. Yet, there are…

“Martha, Martha! You’re anxious and upset about so many things, but only a few things are necessary—really only one” (Luke 10: 41-42). Our Gospel reading today might be a short one, but even with only a few verses, I am immediately hit with all the ways that I am a Martha. It’s like an instant flashback to when I was in middle school and high school and my dad would tell…