It has been said forewarned is fair-warned. Well, we are less than a week until the church season of Lent. The season starts with Ash Wednesday, March 5th. We gather for worship that day at 7:00pm. Our youth are in the midst of planning that worship experience…so it may be unlike other Ash Wednesday services […]
Our experiment with these sermon slide posts continues. Please let me know how helpful these posts are…or are not. How do we close the gap between who we currently are as a society and who we are called to be? Micah: Do justice, offer lovingkindness [hesed], walk humbly with God Jesus: Don’t be afraid, follow
Sermon slides for Feb. 23: Good Trouble On the Line Read More »
What forms of art are inspiring you right now? I’ve always maintained that I’m not a poetry person, and yet poetry keeps making it into my sermons lately because writers, thinkers, theologians in my timeline and my inbox keep sharing them and, to my surprise, I keep finding myself moved by them. (You can read
Our experiment with these sermon slide posts continues. Please let me know how helpful these posts are…or are not. Not nearly as many slides today, but here’s what you miss when participating online as we go through the “evidence” presented in the courtroom scene in Micah 6. God goes first and makes a few references:
Sermon slides for Feb. 16: Good Trouble in the Courtroom Read More »
This past Sunday (Feb. 9) I concluded my sermon by reading the new poem by adrienne maree brown called “it is our turn to carry the world.” I also offered the same challenge brown does in their post presenting the poem: Write down the names of those you–like Shiphrah, Puah, and Moses’ sister–commit to protecting.
Welcome to week 1 of our new sermon series, Good Trouble! Here are the slides shared during the sermon. These aren’t visible to our online participants due to deficiencies in our camera technology. So we’re experimenting with offering them here on our blog. Leave a comment to let us know how much (or how little)
In my Feb. 2 sermon, I read a couple lines of the poem, “Perhaps the World Ends Here” by Joy Hario. These are the opening lines of the poem that I shared in the sermon: The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.The gifts of earth are brought
The sermon slide post experiment continues! As I wrote here last week, these sermon slide posts are mostly designed for those participating in our worship experience online and thus cannot see the slides we show to enhance the message. Today’s text is from chapter 4 of the Gospel According to Luke. As we read this
Sermon slides for February 2: Busting boundaries Read More »
Dear Minooka UMC Found Family,85 years ago, Thomas Wolfe famously wrote, “You can’t go home again.” Something like 1850 years ago, the author of the Gospel According to Luke even more famously wrote, “No prophet is accepted in his hometown.” Have you found that to be true? At the risk of arguing with two literary