Sermons (Page 112)
Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost
In today’s gospel, it’s wedding season! That means there will be a big party! In Jesus’ time, the wedding feast was an enormous communal celebration. Weddings were not about personal choice or lavish expense. Instead, weddings celebrated new life and commitment. Not just the new life and commitment of the couple, but the rebirth of the entire community. But, at today’s wedding, there was one problem –oil; more specifically, olive oil…
All Saints Sunday
On Thursday the seniors at LSTC threw a Halloween party. We decided to hold it on such a late date due to scheduling conflicts and to take advantage of half-price candy and decorations. As a shout-out to the Reformation, the costume theme was saints and sinners…
Reformation and Homecoming Sunday
It’s like Jesus understood the future when he said, “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” Maybe Jesus knew that 2016’s word of the year would be “post-truth.”[1] Perhaps he anticipated the rise of nationalism, the flood of fake news, and cultivation of alternative facts. After hearing the Judeans’ response to Jesus’s statement, we discover that their world and our world are remarkably similar…