A sermon given on April 21st, 2019 – Easter Sunday – based upon Luke 24:1-12. But you don’t fool me, because as a pastor I am endowed by God with superpowers. Didn’t know that, did you? My superpower is that I have the ability to look inside you more than other ordinary mortals and see […]
Holy Saturday, April 20 Throughout Luke’s Gospel, Jesus has had challenging things to say to and about rich people. The Sanhedrin sentenced Jesus to death, but as is usually the case in life there were dissenting voices. Here at the end with Jesus’ lifeless body still hanging on the cross we hear of a rich […]
Good Friday, April 19 Luke 22:66 – 23:1 – 49 When morning comes, Jesus is interrogated by the Jewish leadership council known as the Sanhedrin. When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, gathered together, and they brought Jesus to their council. They said, ‘If you are the […]
A sermon preached on Maundy Thursday, April 18, 2019 based on Luke’s account of the passion story. In this great story we will listen to once more this night, we are invited to contemplate the mystery of good and evil. As we live our ordinary lives far removed from the atrocities that are common in […]
Maundy Thursday, April 18th Join us this evening at 7 p.m. as we share Holy Communion and read the story once more with a Tennebrae service. Our reading is longer today as I invite yourself to immerse yourself in the story at the heart of our faith. Luke 22:7-13 Then came the day of Unleavened […]
Wednesday, April 17 — When Evil Overcomes a Person There weren’t accommodations for the tens of thousands of people who descended that week upon Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, so each day as evening approached the vast majority would leave the city to campsites they had set up outside the city gates. Such was the […]
Tuesday, April 16 — By Your Endurance You Will Gain Your Souls In the course of the 21st chapter we hear of Jesus seeing somebody others would be inclined to overlook – a poor widow who puts in two small copper coins into the temple treasury. When his disciples begin to gawk at the extraordinary […]
Monday, April 15 In the course of chapter 20 we hear some of the teachings and debates Jesus engaged in over the next three days as the people gathered around to hear him speak in the Temple. In the presence of the chief priests, scribes and elders Jesus told a story of a man who […]
A sermon preached on April 14, 2019 – Palm Sunday – and the occasion of the baptism of Zach Thomas Bothe . Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but […]
Sunday, April 14 — Jesus Enters Jerusalem This coming week we will read extensively from the story of the last week of Jesus’ earthly life as told in the Gospel of Luke. Previously we heard Jesus express his great sorrow over the rejection he would receive in Jerusalem, comparing himself to a mother hen rejected […]
