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 […]

Texts: Luke 12:32-40, Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Grace, Peace, and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Christianity is full of fun and quirky lore. In the olden days, around the desert lands of Egypt, there existed a group of men and women who left everything to follow Christ. People of all social realms felt […]

Sermon: 8th Sunday after Pentecost Texts: Luke 12:13-21, Colossians 3:1-11 Grace, Peace, and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. I don’t know how many of you have seen the film Citizen Kane by Orson Welles. In the film we see the meteoric rise of the man Charles Foster Kane, who came to become […]