Sermons on Lent

Despite the best efforts of some of my youth on internship, I have to admit that I still am terrified of snakes, so I’m not particularly a fan of today’s reading from Numbers! When we were trying to decide what parts of the country I would preference for receiving a first call, I intentionally thought about which places I was least likely to encounter large spiders,…

Maybe it’s just a name connection thing, but there are very few things that I am as passionate about in Scripture as the defense of Sarah’s laughter when she overheard that she is going to become pregnant in her old age. So often, people are quick to judge Sarah for this laughter (Genesis 18:12), but I just want to point out that Abram laughs first! We hear in our reading…

For those of you that have wondered why I’m such a big Iowa Hawkeye basketball fan, it’s not just because of Caitlin Clark’s record-breaking college career, but it also connects me to my time serving primarily as a pediatric chaplain at the University of Iowa Hospital. I was there for eleven weeks as a part of my Clinical Pastoral Education program, which was a great…