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That which we are baptized into
Good morning! All Saints, it is so good to be with you this morning. My name is Ethan, I serve as the college and young adult missioner...

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Jan 7, 20237 min read
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Who takes no offense
Last week I was at Trinity Episcopal Church and I preached a sermon about how deeply unpleasant John the Baptist seemed to be -- not just...

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Dec 10, 20226 min read
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You brood of vipers!
You brood of vipers! Just kidding. That felt bad even to pretend say. Every Advent season, I love it when this passage rolls around from...

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Dec 3, 20225 min read
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The work and the faith of painting
You might've heard me preach a few Sundays ago about The House -- our Episcopal-Lutheran campus and young adult ministry -- having...

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Nov 28, 20223 min read
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The tools of community building
All semester long we have been in our season of arts&crafts at The House with our college students and young adults. It started as my...

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Nov 19, 20224 min read
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The problem of other people
I sat down at my laptop and thought for a while about whether I should try to write my children's sermon first or my pulpit sermon, and I...

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Nov 10, 20225 min read
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The Friendship of Saints
It feels like one of the most special aspects of friendship when you start to take on the mannerisms and jokes and vocabulary of the...

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Nov 1, 20222 min read
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Who asked this from your hand?
It feels really important to me to name that this sentiment we sometimes hold that "old testament God is mean and different from nice God...

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Oct 28, 20225 min read
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This long-standing tradition
One of the most fun (and least expected) parts of being a pastor is hearing from someone about a topic that they would like to learn more...

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Oct 25, 20222 min read
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Healing, Being Healed
Luke 17:11-19 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers...

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Oct 7, 20226 min read
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Finding the Lost, and Losing the Found
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have a really weird job. Not weird bad, weird great, but weird complicated. My role is many...

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Sep 9, 20226 min read
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Those of you who do not give up everything
Why,,, would Jesus say this. Why. Like, why. I don't want to hate my family -- I quite like my family and it feels so opposite from what...

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Sep 3, 20227 min read
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Church can be a lonely place
Sunday morning can be one of the loneliest places at church. If it's your first time, if you haven't been in ages, or if you just moved...

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Aug 30, 20222 min read
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Sermon | There are six days on which work ought to be done
Well Christ Lutheran Church, somehow suddenly it is the start of another school year and frankly I have not a clue where the summer went....

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Aug 20, 20227 min read
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Puzzle Pieces
It's fun work to be a young adult missioner, because the young adult mission is simple: build something fun and relational and faithful...

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Jul 25, 20222 min read
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Sermon | Outwit. Outplay. Outlast.
Something that I know about myself is that I am not really all that hardy of a person – I keep my AC set on 69 and if it squeaks up to 72...

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Jul 23, 20226 min read
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for the feast of the Ascension
Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? What a heart-breaking world we live in. What an absolutely gutting,...

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May 26, 20225 min read
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Spring 2022 in Review~ #ELCMWrapped
For a chronology of our semester in the form of a picture gallery, scroll down just a little further! It feels like every time we get our...

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May 12, 20223 min read
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Finals Week Survival Kits
It can be intimidating, as a new campus minister, to think about campus outreach. Where's the highest foot traffic place to table? Collar...

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Apr 26, 20223 min read
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A Journey of (Un)Belief
I remember being eight years old -- it was wild to be eight years old and think back on all the things you knew and didn't know -- well I...

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Apr 25, 20225 min read
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