Sermon

Jerusalem: The Holy City

Jerusalem has been destroyed twice—once by the Babylonians and once by the Romans—It has been besieged 23 times; attacked 52 times; captured and recaptured 44 times; and yet it still stands. God hasn’t given up on Jerusalem. For all the scars it bears, for all of the faults it has known, it is still a […]

23 February, 2016
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What Happened to the Good Guys?

When I was a child a quarter went a long way. Fourteen cents would pay for the Saturday afternoon movie and a dime would buy a box of popcorn. For fourteen cents you got a newsreel, a cartoon, and a double feature. The movies on Saturday afternoon were westerns and the nice thing about westerns […]

17 February, 2016
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A Place in the Wilderness

There are two striking features about the Temptation of Jesus as reported in the Gospel of Luke. It happens immediately after His baptism. As baptism is a defining moment for us, His baptism was a defining moment for the Lord. It marked the beginning of His public ministry. And He was led into the wilderness

14 February, 2016
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Marked with a Cross

Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the season of Lent. Garrison Keillor once commented that for Lutherans it’s always Lent. But if we were to turn things around–look at it from the other end–we would be Living Lent as the People of the Resurrection. The question then would become “what is