Sermons on Lent

I don’t know about you all, but when I am feeling particularly exhausted, not listening to what my body needs, trying to push through all the things on my to-do list without taking breaks or resting, I have described the feeling as what I imagine it is like to drive through the desert with your gas tank on empty. It’s the experience of running on fumes but needing to…

In just a few weeks, the Lutherans of the Northwest Washington Synod and the Episcopalians from the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia will gather for Chrism Mass. This is a joint worship service that happens every year on the Tuesday of Holy Week. It is a beautiful service in which the ordination vows of clergy are renewed, we actually get to attend worship instead of lead it,…

If you have ever been caught in a strong Midwest summer thunderstorm, you will understand just how much water is able to come down from the sky at one time, and it is terrifying. If you lived in Iowa in a house at the bottom of a large hill, you will also learn that inches of rain falling in a short amount of time doesn’t soak into the ground, but will instead find its…