Sermons from September 2023

Whenever I read anything from Jonah, my mind goes back to my Confirmation days when we had to act out different Bible stories and my group was assigned the story of Jonah. We had about 5 minutes to act out the whole 4 chapters, including being eaten by the fish a.k.a a sleeping bag, and I was somehow cast as Jonah… I try not to take it personally. Because, for better or…

Oops, ouch! Now, out of context, this may sound like phrases I mutter to myself when I accidentally run into different objects all the time, which is fairly accurate, but actually it was one of the core community agreements in my days of interfaith training. I have made a lot of community agreements in my day, especially when I served as a nation-wide training coach in…

After reading today’s Gospel story, I think I have a better idea now where my daycare mom got her ideas for conflict management with a dozen of us kids running around. I went to someone’s house every day for daycare growing up and I loved it; she really was like a bonus mom to us. And, I remember her setting some high standards for us and how we were to behave. It’s not…

There are certain experiences in life that I will never forget. I wish I could say that they are all happy memories, but unfortunately this also includes times like receiving the phone call when my grandmother died unexpectedly while I was in college, when my uncle was diagnosed with cancer, and later when my dad was on his way to come get me because we were flying down…