Sermons

Thin Spaces

This Sunday in worship we get a little bonus story. The way the calendar works this year, there are more Sundays than usual so we get a story not normally in the Lectionary. It’s kind of a part two to last week. Last week we looked at David and the temple he wanted to build for God, which God did not want. But we also know that eventually a temple is built. How does this happen? And why? And who…

God Is Still Speaking

This Sunday we move on from 1 Samuel and into 2 Samuel: It’s interesting that these books are named for Samuel, when actually they’re mostly about David. And this week we will finally be introduced to David. Yes, that David, King David, of David and Goliath fame. But that’s not the story we’ll be looking at this week. Watch the sermon above to find out where we’ll land and what David’s life and work has to say for us here…

Which Way is Up

This week we take a massive leap in the narrative and dial into a woman named Hannah. She offers one of the most authentic prayers in all of the scriptures, and then recites what is often described as a “song” which will echo into the early chapters of the Gospel of Luke. Hannah is fierce, strong, and determined, and she gives to us a glimpse into why we may often find ourselves frustrated with the state of the world. -Pastor Paul…

God Needs the Breathing Ball

SCRIPTURE: Exodus 32:1-14 (NRSVUE) 32 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” 2 Aaron said to them, “Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives,…

Empire Always Strikes Back

This Sunday we will be taking a big turn of the page out of the Book of Genesis and into the Book of Exodus. Stuff’s about to really heat up. Which is a serous understatement! This week we will looking at a portion of the story of Israel’s exodus out of Egypt. The story is too big and too multifaceted to ever be covered all at once, so we will be taking a peak into it and how we still see elements…

The Way Out is Through

This Sunday we continue journeying through the story, taking less of a leap than we did last week. Last week we were introduced to Abram (later Abraham), and this week we jump to the story of his great-grandsons, most notably Joseph. It’s a long story, probably the longest in all of the Scriptures (depending on how you define it), and it is rich! So rich that Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a famous Broadway musical based on it, and it follows…

Look to the Stars

We last week we left off with Adam and Eve having eaten of the “forbidden fruit”  and what that might mean in terms of the human condition. This week we’ll take a big leap, as we look at Abram (later known is Abraham) and his journey. It’s a long and complicated one, and it but we will be honing in on just a small, and I think very human, part of Abram’s story. It’s a big, scary out world there,…

To Judge or Not To Judge

We kick off our first season in the Narrative Lectionary, which is a lectionary out of Luther Seminary that works through the Bible narratively between September and June. So this Sunday we begin with one of the Creation narratives, and particularly that pesky piece of fruit Adam and Eve decided to partake of. This story is rich with meaning, and has endless possibilities as to what it could be about, but one thing is for sure: With a culture as…

Welcome Pastor Paul Baudhuin!

SCRIPTURE: Luke 24:45-53 (NRSVUE) 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah[a] is[b] to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses[c] of these things. 49 And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with…

Interim

SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 3: 5-6 &13-18CONTEMPORARY READING: For the Interim Time by John O’Donohue