Sermons from May 2023
Sunday May 28th, 2023 Worship
So you may have noticed a few weeks ago that I actually really love talking about the Holy Spirit. It’s the Person of the Trinity that I wish we would talk about more as Lutherans, so I love that Pentecost is a day when we really get to celebrate the work of the Holy Spirit! And, one of the things that I love about the story of Pentecost is the imagery. “Something…
Sunday May 21st, 2023 Worship
Have you ever had an experience that you had a hard time explaining to someone who wasn’t there to witness or experience it for themselves? As someone that struggles to tell stories that aren’t too convoluted, this is a frequent problem for me, but there are some experiences where this is particularly true. One such example for me was when I had to relearn how to do…
Sunday May 14th, 2023 Worship
“If you love me, then… you’ll do this thing or that thing?” How many times have you been on the receiving end of a comment like that? How did that make you feel? I know that every time I have heard that comment, I felt hurt. It felt coercive and manipulative, and I didn’t like the way it had an undertone of doubting that I loved this person. So, when I hear similar words…
Sunday May 7th, 2023 Worship
This last Friday, May 5th, was the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. We raise awareness, recognizing that this is a crisis that often doesn’t make news headlines, but is a problem that deeply impacts Indigenous communities, and thus has an impact on our whole human family. So we remember them, as our siblings who are also loved by the…
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