Sermons from 2026 (Page 2)

Yesterday, I went to a workshop on the topic of “Practicing Faith in the Age of Radicalization.” So, with that in mind, and as someone who loves to study history, religion, and the patterns that occur within both fields, I am always fascinated by the Israelites in today’s Isaiah reading and their similarity to us today. At its core, it gets to a deeper question about our…

For better or worse, whenever I hear the Beatitudes today, from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, I think about the time 25 of my Seminary peers and I commandeered our bus, at the suggestion of our tour guide, to leave the Mount and go down to the city of Tiberias for a little bit one evening. While some members of our group were tired and wanted to stay back and rest before…

I am not the best tourist when it comes to following specific pilgrimage paths, since I take things a bit too literally than is recommended in the tourism industry. Walking the path of Jesus in the Holy Land, I often found myself skeptically casting aside all of the comments that were made about Jesus having touched this rock or that portion of beach. How can they prove…

As I was looking at our fridge this week, I was taking a moment to reflect on all the love that is evident in our lives by the Christmas cards, birthday drawings, and travel magnets that cover the entire front of our fridge. One of the things that is still there, too, is a copy of the invitation that we sent out for our wedding. From visiting the homes of our friends and…