Trinity Sunday–Year CJune 12, 2022Sherwood Park Lutheran Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today is Trinity Sunday—a day to focus on a concept that we use to explain what we know is complex and unexplainable. We can’t confine the Trinity—this idea that God is 3 separate but united ‘persons’—to one Sunday. Just like we… Continue reading
Day of Pentecost-Year CActs 2:1-21; John 14: 8-17 [25-27]Brandon Lutheran Church, Brandon, Manitoba Grace, mercy and peace to you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Today, we come to the end of the Easter season. Pentecost Sunday is the 50th day of the Easter season, the season that began with Mary… Continue reading
Easter 7CJohn 17:17-24May 29, 2022 Grace, mercy and peace to you in the name of Jesus, Amen. Today is the final Sunday in the season of Easter. But instead of a resurrection story, our gospel reading today takes us back to the evening before Jesus is arrested, tried and crucified. In John’s… Continue reading
Easter 5CMay 15, 2022John 13:31-35 Although we are in the season of Easter, our gospel reading goes back to the night the disciples are gathered in the upper room with Jesus, which we also read on Maundy Thursday. He hasn’t been arrested yet, but he seems to know that something is… Continue reading
A sermon based on Mark 10:35-45, Oct. 17, 2021 If your home was anything like mine, there was more than one sibling spat about who got to sit where. I grew up with brothers, and we would regularly compete for the best seats at the table, in the car, or even… Continue reading
Reflection on Psalm 90, given at the National Worship Conference 2021 (ELCIC/Anglican Church in Canada) In our liturgical tradition, each year we cycle through themes of anticipation, celebration, discovery, lament, grief, renewal and growth. Each year we are guided again by the orbit of a divine narrative that pulls us in,… Continue reading
Maundy Thursday Sermon April 17, 2014 John 13:1-17, 31b-35 Last summer I had the chance to spend a week at the Taize Community in France. Taize is an ecumenical monastery that draws people from all over the world together to spend a week in prayer, service, study and fellowship. Each… Continue reading
In pondering the sermon for this Sunday, I discovered that I actually had two sermons. This is the one that won’t get preached. Text: Matthew 5:13-16 In the movie Lion King, Simba is born into greatness. A descendant of the king, he is told from a young age that he… Continue reading