* a sermon preached at New Hope Lutheran Church on July 16, 2017 * Since sermons are primarily intended to be heard, you can listen along here. Texts for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost: Romans 8:1-11 + Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 *************** Please pray with me: Nurturing God, We come to you this morning covered in dirt. Dirty … Continue reading Soiled Community
* a sermon preached at New Hope Lutheran Church on July 9, 2017 * Since sermons are primarily intended to be heard, you can listen along here. Texts for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost: Romans 7:15-25a + Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 *************** Please pray with me: Holy Comforter, Our lives are full of expectation, Maybe none more than … Continue reading Falling Gracefully
* a sermon preached at New Hope Lutheran Church on July 2, 2017 * Since sermons are primarily intended to be heard, you can listen along here. Texts for the 4th Sunday after Pentecost: Romans 6:12-23 + Matthew 10:40-42 *************** Please pray with me: Welcoming God, Your word of hospitality is wider and deeper than we imagine, … Continue reading The Least You Could Do
* a sermon preached at New Hope Lutheran Church on June 25, 2017 * Since sermons are primarily intended to be heard, you can listen along here. Texts for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost: Romans 6:1b-11 + Matthew 10:24-39 *************** Please pray with me: Holy God, We say we want peace, Yet true peace is hard to … Continue reading True Peace is Hard to Come By
* a sermon preached at New Hope Lutheran Church on June 18, 2017 * Since sermons are primarily intended to be heard, you can listen along here. Texts for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost: Romans 5:1-8 + Matthew 9:35-10:23 *************** This is a tough sermon this morning. One that I hope names some of our deeper hurt, … Continue reading Suffering With and Speaking Life
* a sermon preached at New Hope Lutheran Church on February 5, 2017 * Since sermons are primarily intended to be heard, you can listen along here. Texts for the 5th Sunday after the Epiphany: Isaiah 58:1-12 + Psalm 112:1-10 + 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 + Matthew 5:13-20 *************** Please pray with me this morning: Holy God, You … Continue reading These Are The Facts
* a sermon preached at New Hope Lutheran Church on Pentecost, June 4, 2017 * Since sermons are primarily intended to be heard, you can listen along here. Texts for the Festival of Pentecost: Acts 2:1-21 + Psalm 104:24-34, 35b + 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 + John 20:19-23 *************** This was a jointly preached sermon between one of … Continue reading One Spirit, One Community
* a sermon preached at New Hope Lutheran Church on Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017 * Since sermons are primarily intended to be heard, you can listen along here. Texts for the Festival of the Resurrection, Easter Sunday: Acts 10:34-43 + Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 + Colossians 3:1-4 + Matthew 28:1-10 *************** Please pray with me: Holy Crucified … Continue reading Worn Out
* a sermon preached at New Hope Lutheran Church on Ash Wednesday, March 1, 2017 * Since sermons are primarily intended to be heard, you can listen along here. Texts for Ash Wednesday: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 + Psalm 51:1-17 + 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 + Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 *************** Please pray with me this evening: Holy and Almighty … Continue reading The Crosses We Wear
As we move ever closer to Easter, you may have heard an announcement in church or overheard one of your friends talking about Holy Week. But what is Holy Week? Why do Christians celebrate it? And what the heck is a Triduum?!? In the earliest years of the church, devout Christians would travel to Jerusalem … Continue reading Holy Week 2017 at New Hope Lutheran Church
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