

On trees, and level places, and finding balance in a broken world
A sermon on Luke 6:17-26 & Jeremiah 17:5-10 [for an audio recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash] I had a moment of irony this week as I was preparing for our mid-week study. The topic for the week was focused on symbols in Christian worship. The resource I was using to develop the study made a point about how human beings are just wired for symbols… that the use of symbols in our communication and our cultures is universal…that there is just


Instability, Confession, and Calling
A sermon on Luke 5:1-11 and Isaiah 6:1-13 (for an audion recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by Mihály Köles on Unsplash) Quick poll: Anyone hear these two stories and wonder… “huh, what’s Pastor going to do with those?” I did! All week, I wrestled with these stories, wondering what in the world I could say about them that would have relevance in your lives. Perhaps part of the problem is that they are both call stories and telling our call stories is not really part