(Caveat: if you have lost a loved one this past year — whether to covid or suicide or just old age — this post may not be for you, and may seem callous in the face of deep and abiding grief.) When I remember back to January 2020 — the New Year of a new… Read More
SERMON: Refiner’s Fire.
Our city, our nation, our world is hurting today. If you are in need of a healing message, please consider listening. Send love to everyone.
poem: ASHES
my boots are covered in the ashes of bridges burned and the dust of roads less traveled. wisdom calls to me from sacred pages with the reminder to dust off worn out thoughts and tired feet that have traveled too far on scorched earth. and having shaken the ashes from some misguided sentiment or strange… Read More
SERMON: The Word is Empathy.
Audio of sermon preached for Epiphany Sunday at St. John’s UCC, Bongards,MN.
SERMON: Pour Into Our Hearts
Audio of sermon preached for St. John’s UCC, Bongards, MN. June 16, 2019 Trinity Sunday. (And a very Happy Fathers Day, too) Listen here: Poured Into Our Hearts
SERMON: the wayward son.
Sermon preached for St. John’s UCC, Bongards, MN. March 24, 2019. Listen to the sermon here: the wayward son From the Lenten 2019 sermon series, Prodigals Return.
SERMON: Precious Treasure
Audio of sermon preached for St. John’s UCC, Bongards, MN. March 17, 2019. You can listen to the sermon here: Precious Treasures From the sermon series Prodigals Return, Lent 2019.
SERMON: One in A Hundred
Audio of sermon preached for St. John’s UCC, Bongards, MN. March 10, 2019. Listen here: One In a Hundred From the Lenten sermon series PRODIGALS RETURN.
SERMON: A New Exodus
Audio of the sermon preached for St. John’s UCC, Bongards, MN. Transformation Sunday, March 3, 2019 You can listen to it here: A NEW EXODUS
SERMON: Proclaiming Blessedness
Audio of sermon preached for St. John UCC, Bongards, MN. February 17, 2019. Listen to it here: Proclaiming Blessedness From the sermon series SHINE YOUR LIGHT: Manifesting Epiphany.
SERMON: Bearing Witness
Audio of sermon preached for St. John’s UCC, Bongards, MN. February 10, 2019. Listen to it here: BEARING WITNESS From the sermon series, “Shine Your Light: Manifesting Epiphany.”
SERMON: Embrace the Outsider.
Audio of sermon preached at St. John’s UCC, Bongards, MN. February 3, 2019. You can listen to it here: Embrace The Outsider
SERMON: Manifesting Justice
Audio of sermon preached for St. Johns UCC, Bongards, MN. January 27, 2019 Listen to it here: Manifesting Justice.
SERMON: Manifesting Abundance
Audio of sermon preached at St. John’s United Church of Christ. From the sermon series SHINE YOUR LIGHT (Epiphany season 2019) January 20, 2019 Listen to it here: MANIFESTING ABUNDANCE
SERMON: To Make Manifest
Audio of sermon preached at St. John’s United Church of Christ, Bongards, MN. January 13, 2019. from the sermon series SHINE YOUR LIGHT (Epiphany season 2019) Listen to it here: TO MAKE MANIFEST
SERMON: heartless.
Audio of a sermon preached at St. Johns UCC, Bongards, MN. September 30, 2018 Listen to it here: heartless.
SERMON: Shining Through Our Brokenness
Audio of a sermon preached at St. Johns UCC, Bongards, MN. June 3, 2018. Listen to it here: Shining Through Our Brokenness
SERMON: Living Sacrifices
Audio of a sermon preached at St. Johns UCC, Bongards, MN. May 27, 2018 Listen to it here: Living Sacrifices