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A sudden, dramatic shift in priorities
I find myself perpetually astounded at the extent to which we treat the calling of Jesus' disciples as a normal, or even relatable thing....
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- Jan 14
- 6 min
What are you looking for?
In my ministry with young adults and college students, we loveeee a good icebreaker question. It can be hard and weird and awkward to...
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- Dec 3, 2022
- 5 min
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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- 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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- Oct 7, 2022
- 6 min
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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- Sep 9, 2022
- 6 min
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 3, 2022
- 7 min
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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- 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 23, 2022
- 6 min
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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- Apr 25, 2022
- 5 min
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 2, 2022
- 6 min
Week 5: God's Word
Every Wednesday evening at 8:30pm, without fail, after I close Zoom, I open the little Twitter app on my phone and I tweet: "not to be...
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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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- Jan 30, 2022
- 3 min
When They Try To Throw You Off A Cliff, and other unrelatable stories of Jesus
At the risk of being pedantic, sometimes it can be illuminating to ask some obvious questions, or at least questions that seem obvious....
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- Jan 21, 2022
- 5 min
This Burden of Responsibility
What a wild and tough start to the year, in succession with a wild and tough couple of years. I feel like it's all I talk about and all I...
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- Jan 7, 2022
- 5 min
To Tell The Truth
A million COVID cases on Monday, snow outages, I-95, an insurrection's anniversary, and in-person school starting next -- I've been...
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- Dec 23, 2021
- 3 min
A world worth loving, again
Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! All fall, and into the winter, I have been running a Zoom bible study for young adults and during the...
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- Dec 5, 2021
- 3 min
A Way in the Wilderness
Have we not been in the Wilderness for a good almost two years already? Don't we know what this is like? Well I want to suppose with you...
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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 22, 2021
- 7 min
The Elephant in the Room
Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly. Plz be seated I’m very happy to be here with St. George’s; it...
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- Oct 7, 2021
- 4 min
The Eye of the Needle
Mark 10:17-31 As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to...
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