Sermon for the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost – November 10, 2019 Job 19:23-27a, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17, Luke 20:27-38 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. These are nice scriptures for us to hear after a...

Sermon for All Saints Sunday – November 3, 2019 Ephesians 1:11-23, Luke 6:20-31 Dear saints of God, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. If you go to the Mariners Hall of Fame at T-Mobile Park, you will see people who have won great...

Sermon for Reformation Sunday – October 27, 2019 John 8:31-36  This sermon is delivered in character as Martin Luther, who emerges from the “sacristy time machine” to take questions from the congregation.  Guten morgen, guten morgen! It has been a few years since I’ve...

Sermon for the Eighteen Sunday after Pentecost – October 13, 2019 Luke 17:11-19  Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. A few years ago, Christian author Anne Lamott published a book called, “Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three...

Sermon for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost – October 6, 2019 Luke 17:1-10  Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. About a year ago, an African American man named Botham Jean was eating ice cream in his apartment when...

Sermon for St. Michael and All Angels – September 29, 2019 Daniel 10:10-14, 12:1-3, Revelation 12:7-12, Luke 10:17-20 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Why does life seem like such a battle so much of the time? ...

Sermon for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 22, 2019 Luke 16:1-13 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. One of the great archetypes in all of storytelling is the antihero.  An antihero is a character who is...

Sermon for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 8, 2019 Luke 14:25-33 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. One of the longest running and most successful ad campaigns in history is the Mastercard “priceless”...

Sermon for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost – September 1, 2019 Luke 14:1, 7-14  Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Who you eat with matters. And not only that, but where you sit when you are eating with others also...

Sermon for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost – August 25, 2018 (Church Picnic Service) Luke 13:10-17 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. This text came alive for me in a powerful way this week. You see, I’ve been...