Sermons from June 2025
22 Jun 2025
2nd Sunday of PentecostJune 22, 2025Luke 8.26-39 For as long as I can remember, I have always been afraid of something. And yes, I know, everyone is afraid of something, but this is like, from the time I can remember amongst the myriad of run of the mill fears—spiders, snakes, etc.,–my brain has always honed in one at any given time. When I was itty bitty, it was thunderstorms. I hated them, would get nervous anytime the weather got sketchy. My parents got me a stuffed…
15 Jun 2025
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…
08 Jun 2025
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…
01 Jun 2025
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…