Sermons from October 2024
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…
06 Oct 2024
St. FrancisOctober 6, 2024 Genesis 1.24-31 I think it’s safe to say that we all have some kind of visceral memoryaround experiences with creation; those memories which fill us up, slow ourheart rates, and bring an overwhelming sense of peace because they evoke afeeling, a feeling of being out in nature, our in God’s world and beingentirely at rest in our surroundings. For me, so many of these kinds ofmemories are tangled up in growing up in Michigan. When I…