All Saints’ Sunday November 5, 2017 Matthew 5: 1-12 You can click on the link above to read the text in Oremus Bible Browser One thing must be perfectly clear on this 500th Anniversary year of the Reformation. Protestants don’t have saints. Dr Martin Luther wanted to be perfectly clear about that. The practice in […]
The Fateful Invitation
19th Sunday after Pentecost October 15, 2017 Matthew 22: 1-14 Law and Gospel. That’s what Lutheran preachers are famous for. We believe that Scripture comes to us as law and gospel. The Law calls us to account for failing to live as God’s people. It wakes us up to God’s order for our lives, […]
Not Fair!
16th Sunday after Pentecost September 24, 2017 Matthew 20: 1-16 Every time I hear this parable, I am reminded of the workers I met in one of the small villages in the coffee growing area of Guatemala. They live about an hour and a half away from the largest western city. The bus comes […]
Keeping Score
15th Sunday after Pentecost September 17, 2017 Matthew 18: 21-35 You can click on this link to read the text in Oremus Bible Browser Forgiveness! Wow! I think everyone has a dozen good stories about forgiveness – ones in which forgiveness changed a life or maybe didn’t change a life. As a preacher, sometimes it’s […]
Marked by the Cross of Christ
13th Sunday after Pentecost September 3, 2017 Matthew 16: 21-28 You can click on this link to read the text in Oremus Bible Browser This has been a hard week. Watching the devastation in Houston has flipped me back to my post-Katrina days. I didn’t arrive until the following summer. But it was enough. All […]
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