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It's either hope or nothing
To be quite honest, this wildfire smoke this week has really thrown me off. I lived in Berkeley California through the worst of the...
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- May 30, 2023
- 2 min
Pentecost in the specifics
This weekend the Church celebrated the day of Pentecost, and at The House we celebrated by having church in our backyard for the first...
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- Apr 3, 2023
- 5 min
Would you rather have a conversation or an enemy
I don't know what the experience is of the ELCA writ large or of Christ Lutheran in specific, but there is a stereotype among...
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- Mar 22, 2023
- 6 min
Top line, bottom line
Back in my previous church in California, during an adult confirmation class, we set up an instructed Eucharist service -- which if...
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- Mar 10, 2023
- 5 min
My People, God's People
In seminary, I read a book from the 1960s by an Episcopal priest named Gibson Winter, wherein among the many things he says, he says that...
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- Mar 7, 2023
- 2 min
Church is a Work of Imagination
Written for Christ Lutheran Church's weekly newsletter, March 7, 2023. Over the weekend, one of the churches that supports our...
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- Nov 10, 2022
- 5 min
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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- Aug 20, 2022
- 7 min
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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- Jul 25, 2022
- 2 min
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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- Feb 4, 2022
- 4 min
From now on, you'll be fishing for people
I think we take for granted just how different the shape of Jesus' ministry was from our own. He was itinerant, traveling from town to...
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- Nov 19, 2021
- 7 min
Christ the King, Caesar the Final Boss
I’m going to show my hand here a little bit and say that I play a lot of video games—I have always played a lot of video games, and I...
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- Oct 20, 2021
- 4 min
Waiting & Watching - An invitation to Advent Devotional 2021
We are happy to invite contributions for our 2021 Advent Daily Devotional on the theme of Waiting & Watching from the members of our four...
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