Grace, Peace, and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Beloved, it is a joy to be with you again to share the Word. One benefit during vacation that I have discovered is that after delivering as many sermons as I do, what a joy it is to also just sit and listen for […]

Texts: Luke 13:10-17, Isaiah 58:9-14 Grace, Peace, and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. I think many of us could relate a little bit to the situation of the woman that Jesus heals in this passage today, when we need to be uncurved from ourselves physically and spiritually and made upright and free […]

Texts: Luke 12:49-56, Hebrews 11:29-12:2, Jeremiah 23:23-29 Grace, Peace, and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The Swiss Protestant theologian Karl Barth, reflecting on how even after the harrowing experiences of the Second World War, in itself an experience of disillusionment about humanity’s civilizational progress, that even after that humanity was still preparing […]