Sermons from 2026 (Page 6)

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…

I find it interesting that the Holy Spirit is the Person of the Trinity that has typically been ascribed socially accepted feminine qualities like gentleness to go along with her feminine pronouns. The Spirit is often depicted in imagery as being like a dove or as a single candle flame instead of a roaring fire; what calm and lovely images! Yet, when the Spirit is…