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Pivoting to Joy
A sermon on Luke 24:1-12 [for an audio recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by Tangerine Newt on Unsplash.] I have heard this story too many times to count, but it still always it fires my imagination. I have felt the weight of the grief the women carried as they approached the burial place of their beloved teacher. I have imagined the confusion of arriving at the tomb and finding the stone unexpectedly moved, and the tomb devastatingly empty. I have squinted my eyes a
Exhaustion, Eagerness, and Enoughness
A sermon on John 13:1-17, 31b-35 [for an audio recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by Shawn Pang on Unsplash.] There is a viral tiktok floating around of a baby’s reaction to trying ice cream for the first time. Maybe some of you have seen it: Just at the start the baby does not seem so sure about what is going on, but then – after the first taste – her eyes get wide and she lunges forward, sinking her fingers into the gooey goodness and smashing the scoop of ice crea
Follow the Leader
A sermon on Luke 19:28-40. For an audio recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by social income on Unsplash. The enthusiastic followers of Jesus, the ones who spread the cloaks on the road, and waved their palms, and shouted Hosanna (as other gospel writers tell us), they thought that they were welcoming the leader they had been waiting for. They were excited by this new prophet and miracle worker, who could cast our demons, and heal lepers, and satisfy thousands of hung
Scent Memory and Meaning
A Sermon on John 12:1-8 For an audio recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by David Clode on unsplash. The story told in our gospel today has been told by many different people. Each of the four gospel writers has their own version, adding or emphasizing different details to make their own points. For Matthew and Mark, the tale includes a foretelling that “wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world” the woman’s deed would be told “in memory of her.” (Matthew 26:
