Sermons from October 2023

You may not know that I have always been good at finding loopholes; much to my mother’s dismay! She used to always joke that I should be a lawyer because I really liked both arguing and loopholes. In a similar vain today, the religious leaders are trying to trap Jesus in his own words. It almost feels like the questioning of a lawyer, as they are trying to get Jesus to…

Every time I would visit my paternal grandparents as a kid, I was always less than enthused by their choice of entertainment. It seemed like they were only ever watching the news on repeat or else they were listening to the farm report… I know, exciting times for a small child. It took me a long time to realize that they were doing so because they were keeping an eye on…

I spent all of Friday this week in a training learning about what it means to be a Coach in the ELCA. Now, it’s different than what we think of for sports coaching, but it is still meant to help people be the most whole selves that they can be. So people come to coaches with a specific and timely issue and together we figure out the next steps forward; this is especially…