Sermons from June 2026

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…