Sermon Archive

Whether literal or metaphorical, there are experiences in life that shake our foundations. That force us to think about our humanity and what it means to live on this planet, to exist in communities, and to believe in God. While it wasn’t an earthquake, I think I’ve shared before that one of the foundation shaking events in my life was witnessing the 35W Bridge collapse…

Every once in a while, we have stories in our lives where the Holy Spirit was up to something, and the Spirit leads us in a completely different direction than we expected or were planning, and it shapes our story forevermore. I’ve had a few moments like that in my life, but the one that sticks out to me in the middle of wedding planning, is that I was almost committed to…

It can be difficult to hear different perspectives, especially ones that challenge what we so deeply hold to be true. We don’t always know how to reconcile the reality that some people’s experiences are different from our own. There may be small disagreements about the “correct” way to do something, that we can live with, for example, I apparently cannot load a dishwasher…