Christ the KingNovember 24, 2024Revelation 1.4b-8 As we enter into the week of the turkey, let me share with you the story of my family’s most memorable and ill-fated Thanksgivings, a Thanksgiving to go down in history. It was somewhere in the early 2000’s when Jon and Kristin decided that they were at a serious enough point in their relationship that they were going to start sharing holidays—thus came the first Thanksgiving where she was in upstate New York and…
26th Sunday after PentecostNovember 17, 2024Mark 13.1-8 I wish I came here this morning with a happy, warm and fuzzy story from our time in Costa Rica, like the little guy whose mom brought him in to see us a year after our docs saved his one week old life from meningitis last year, but that isn’t the story that has been holding my heart. No…the moment that still plays over and over in my brain is the mom who…
All SaintsNovember 3, 2024Isaiah 25.6-9Revelation 22.1-6aJohn 11.32-44 One of the things that I love so much about my grandma is that she is entirely technology adverse. It’s not that doesn’t like it, she doesn’t have any sort of aggressive feelings about it, but she just doesn’t see the point. Now, of course, this has caused a smidgen of angst amongst all of us because this means my grandma doesn’t have a cell phone, which means if she falls when she’s…
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…