Sermons from June 2026

This past week, I was in Columbus, Ohio, for the kickoff of this year’s age Age to Age program. As I explained a bit in the Messenger, Age to Age is focused on creating spaces of intergenerational belonging and inclusion, grounded in who we understand God to be. As their mission statement for this year best describes, “Cohort 3 of the Age to Age Initiative exists to…

Growing up, I never quite understood that a lot of families aren’t as big as mine. I don’t mean in the immediate family sense, since it was just my parents, sister, and I. But, on my dad’s side, I am in the middle of twelve grandkids and now 8 great-grandkids. We weren’t always together, but when we were, you can rest assured that us kids would be running around, making…

Like many sermons, this was not what I had planned on preaching this morning. I had some stories from vacation and my adventures in trying to make it back to Seattle through severe thunderstorms; silly anecdotes of my time with my niece who is my mini-me and becomes more so each year! Those are the things that I wanted to be able to talk about in this first Sunday back…

For those of you who didn’t have to go through the four years of the ELCA Lutheran candidacy process to become an Ordained Pastor, you likely don’t know that every year, besides our internship year, we had to write an essay and be interviewed, by committees and different faculty members, to assess…