Sermons from July 2025

Anger tends to get a bad rap as an emotion. We’re always taught not to be angry, that it isn’t the good or Christian thing to do. But, the reality is that sometimes, we get angry! I’ll remind us over and over again that anger is just a recognition that one of our boundaries, conscious or unconscious has been crossed. Something has happened to which our bodies are…

I’ve been thinking a lot about my ordination this week. Yesterday, Emily and I attended the funeral for one of the members from my internship congregation, Randi, who was the first person to ever call me her pastor. Many months before I was ordained, she would tell me that she saw me as her pastor, even when we weren’t supposed to use that title until after our…

I’ve seen so many comments lately reminding us that borders are a human-made construct. They allow us to divide the world between us vs. them, in ways that are not always helpful. One of the starkest examples of this in my life was when I was visiting the Jordan River, which is half in Israel and half in Jordan, so it is divided down the middle with buoys… I don’t think…

I take choosing hymns for worship very seriously! If you have every walked into my office while I am working on hymn selections, you’ll see Scripture readings pulled up on my computer, along with the planning book and two to three different hymnals open across my desk. It’s pure chaos to look at, but I think it is really important that our music connects us to the…