Sermons

Advent 3-A 12/11/22 St. John’s Mt 11:2-11; Isaiah 35:1-10 One of the great Spiritual Classics from the Middle Ages is a book called The Cloud Unknowing. It was written in the 14th Century by an anonymous monk. It’s a called the Cloud of Unknowing because it teaches that God is unknowable, that our minds are…

Matthew 1:18-25 Joseph, as far as we know, was an ordinary person, a regular Joe you might say like you and me. He was a young man engaged to a young woman, in the small town where he lived – pretty normal. She probably would have been 13 or 14 because that was when girls…

Epiphany 4-A 1/29/23 St. John’s  Mt. 5:1-12: 1 Cor 1:18-31 One of the jobs I had before I went to seminary was teaching drama to young adults with mild developmental disabilities.  It was a great job, a lot of fun and the students were great. Except there was this one guy who was hard to…

Epiphany 3-A 1/22/17 CTK Mt. 4:12-23   Zebulun and Naphtali are kind of funny names, but they play an important part in the story of salvation, they come up in today’s lectionary readings, so I just want to give a little background, biblical history. Please bear with me and any historians in the crowd please…

Epiphany 2-B 1/15/23 John 1:43-51   Do you remember when you me Jesus for the first time? If you grew up in the church chances are it was when you were very young. Where you thought wow, something spiritual going on. Maybe met him through parent or a grandparent or a Sunday school teacher. For…

Baptism of Our Lord Talking Baptism 1/8/23 St. John   Here it is a brand new year And we took a good look in the mirror Came up with new solutions Made some New Year’s resolutions   Turn over a new leaf, start fresh, maybe even repent   So maybe we said we’d quit smoking…