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Touching Our Enemy's Trigger Hand
A sermon on Luke 6:27-38 [An audio recording of this sermon is available here] “Love your enemies.” Three words that are, somehow, both unavoidably familiar and yet still hard to get a hold on. This is one of those commandments that I just kind of assume I understand. The words are simple enough – I know what they each mean. But when I put them together… when I try to get particular, to imagine how they apply in my own life… they get fuzzy. In part, I am sure, this fuzziness
Would You Rather?
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash A sermon on Luke 6:17-26 [An audio file of this sermon can be accessed here] Have you ever played the game “would you rather?” It’s a game of hypotheticals, in which you are presented with two options, and you have to pick one. For instance, would you rather never get to eat chocolate for the rest of your life, or eat nothing but chocolate for the rest of your life? Or, would you rather have perfect health for the next 20 years but not much m
The Grace of Being Called
[For an audio file of this sermon, click here] A sermon on Luke 5:1-11, Isaiah 6:1-13, and 1 Cor. 15:1-11 During my first week away at college, the Resident Advisor in my dorm organized a get-to-know-you activity for all the young women in my section. There were snacks, and games, and there was also an activity that required us all to write down our “most embarrassing moment.” The RA then read these descriptions out loud and we had to figure out the dorm mate to whom each sto
Not Special, But Loved
[For an audio file of this sermon, click here] A sermon on Luke 4:21-30 and 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 “When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child…” This week’s gospel lesson has me thinking about one particular conversation I had as a child – if 19 still counts as childhood (In my case, I think it did). It was a conversation with my Dad, and we were talking about me – because, I was 19. Specifically, we were talking about something I
