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19 Jan 2025
2nd Sunday after EpiphanyJanuary 19, 2025John 2.1-11 If I’m being honest, as I’ve gotten older and as I’ve done more conscientious reading about his life, I’ve found myself nervous, and if anything, frustrated by Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Let me be explicitly clear here, not because of him, because let’s be real if there is any human being deserving of a day of honor, respect, and memorial, it’s him. No, I find myself frustrated with what ends up being…
12 Jan 2025
Baptism of Our LordJanuary 12, 2025Luke 3.15-17, 21-22 This past week, my sisters and I and our book club went to New York City to see Our Town. We had read a book last summer that heavily featured the play and so we jumped at the opportunity to see it live, even while knowing that we weren’t exactly signing up for the most upbeat of evenings in the city. This is where I give the requisite spoiler alert for a…
05 Jan 2025
EpiphanyJanuary 5, 2025Matthew 2.1-12 So we’re going to give a shout out to the history nerds amongst us this morning by spending a little time with the worst and allegedly mad monarchs of all time. Let’s start with some of the obvious—Caligula. You may know some facts about him, but did you know that he banned the mention of goats in his presence and attempted to get his horse elected to a position on his council. Ivan the Terrible of…
24 Dec 2024
Christmas EveDecember 24, 2024Luke 2.1-20 “The best thing about church is that there are no Herdmans.” Now, if you’ve seen or read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, you know exactly what that sentence means. If you haven’t, you have no clue what I’m talking about. For years, Carol has been aiming to get me to read this book, and while I still haven’t, I did finally see the movie this year, and in that moment I finally understood why she…
22 Dec 2024
4th Sunday of Advent December 22, 2024 Luke 1.39-55 This morning we’re going to jump into the way back machine and take you back to everyone’s favorite time in life, 10th grade. Specifically, I’m going to take you back to my 10th grade English class with Mr. Miller. Now, before we get into the story, this all has to come with one massive caveat. Mr. Miller never should have been allowed to keep teaching, he was a terrible teacher, and…
15 Dec 2024
3rd Sunday of AdventDecember 15, 2024Luke 3.7-18 When I lived in Pennsylvania, I ended up becoming pretty good friends with the girl who cut my hair. My usually introverted self wouldn’t dread the hour in the chair trying to small talk because Jordan and I just had a nice, easy flow to conversation. There was one time I came in and she was veritably vibrating with excitement. “I have a new obsession!” I was so immensely curious what this could possibly…
24 Nov 2024
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…
17 Nov 2024
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…
03 Nov 2024
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…
27 Oct 2024
Reformation SundayOctober 27, 2024Jeremiah 31.31-34, Romans 3.19-28 Last Monday before I left for work, my mom asked me what I wanted her to tackle in the wide world of unpacking. I told her the thing that would be most helpful would be for her to unload the zillions of kitchen boxes that were strewn across my apartment. I said if she could just get my pots and pans and dishes put away that would be an immense help. She then…
20 Oct 2024
22nd Sunday after PentecostOctober 20, 2024Mark 10.35-45 We’re going to play a little bit of a guessing game this morning. I’mgoing to give you some facts and you have to see if you can come up withwho you think I’m talking about. When you think you know it just raiseyour hand; I want to see how long it takes the majority of us to figure thisout. So here we go. She was born January 19, 1946. She has beennominated for…
13 Oct 2024
21st Sunday after PentecostOctober 13, 2024Mark 10.17-31 0.2% A miniscule number, meaningless even, basically impossible. Having a 0.2% chance of doing anything is pretty much saying it’s just not going to happen. Those are the kind of odds a team has of winning with ten seconds left in a came they are losing. It’s barely worth mentioning, and yet, 0.2% is my current favorite kind of odds, because it turns out, it’s actually not impossible. It’s close, but it’s not…