Holy Trinity/ConfirmationJune 15, 2025Romans 5.1-5 We’re going to play a little trivia this morning to get into the two stories that I want to share. I’ve got a question for our baseball enthusiasts and a question for our Broadway enthusiasts. So let’s go baseball first. What pitcher gave his name, rather unfortunately, to the surgery that is utilized to reconstruct a player’s ulnar collateral ligament? Bingo. Tommy John. Ok, my Broadway folks, the role of Elphaba was played by whom in the original Broadway cast…
PentecostJune 8, 2025Acts 2.1-21 There had to have been at least one. At least. In a see of thousands of people, it is more than likely that there was more than one, one person who wondered what on earth they were doing there. But…it’s Pentecost…it’s a high holy day. It’s fifty days after Passover and this is just what you do. You go to Jerusalem, you go to the Temple, you go and worship amongst your community of people, even if you aren’t sure they’re your…
7th Sunday of EasterJune 1, 2025John 17.20-26 I think by now you all know that Jennifer, Kristin, and I are a pretty stalwart unit. We are not the siblings with years of jealousy and nit-picking behind us that now as we’re older we have to get over. We don’t have that one big thing sitting in our past that has never been dealt with. We’re just we three. Generally, we like the same movies, we listen to the same music, we’re different for sure, but…
Biography: My family moved from New Jersey to Newport News, VA when I was about seven years old, my sister ten, my brother four. That was my dad’s last work-related move, and I’ve been here ever since. We began attending Trinity Lutheran Church shortly thereafter when services were still being held in the downtown Newport News location and joined about a year later. My parents were members until their deaths, my brother and sister until marriage and jobs took them…