* a sermon preached at Luther Memorial Church of Chicago on January 11, 2015 * Text: Matthew 3:1-17 *************** Please pray with me: Please pray with me. Living God, We are often forgetful people. Remind us and keep us mindful of who we are and whose we are in the waters of our baptism. In your most … Continue reading All In The Family
*an Advent reflection given at Luther Memorial Church of Chicago on December 10, 2014* Text: Mark 1:1-8 Prepare Wilderness. Untouched, undomesticated, unknown. Full of lush foliage, I imagine. Or lying barren and uninviting. Or sitting under ages of crumbling infrastructure, rubble, and dust. Certainly not the picture we have of our beautiful city. There aren’t many “untouched” parts … Continue reading Realign — or ‘The Call of a Scraggly, Strange-Dressing, Bug-Eating Prophet’
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