Sermon - Sept 14, 2025 (Genesis 22) Rethinking Our Beliefs About God and Violence in the Bible
For a passage about God’s ultimate test, here’s a test question of my own: The popular quote, "We must hold the Bible in one hand and the...
Sermon - Aug 10, 2025 - The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas
If there was any Gnostic text that really should have been included in the New Testament canon, it was the Gospel of Thomas. After all,...
Sermon - Aug 3, 2025 - The Gnostic Gospel of Mary Magdalene
One of my favorite types of stories is a suspenseful mystery thriller—one with smart and courageous heroes and wise but reckless...
Sermon - July 27, 2025 (Matthew 9) Resurrecting the Divine Feminine
Today I get the honor of wrapping up our sermon series “Eve Isn’t Evil” – a month’s worth of messages dedicated to seeking out and...
Sermon - July 6, 2025 (Isaiah 66) Our Mothering God
Next year will mark the 250 th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the nation’s founding fathers John Adams...
Sermon - June 22, 2025 (Acts 17) It's About Love you idiots
While Jesus spent almost all of his time in the backcountry, the hamlets, the villages, the dirt roads, tiny little mountain and lake...
Sermon - Easter 2025 (2nd Cor 5) - The Bodhisattva
“And he died for all, therefore all have died…And he died for all so that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for the...
Sermon - March 16, 2025 (Luke 13) Sin and Repentance
Introduction A career that spanned four decades, this Major League player had 2,715 hits in his career, three times he hit over .300,...
Sermon - March 9, 2025 (Luke 10) The Good Samaritan
What do you do when you find a mess? Do you jump in and clean it up and ask questions later, or do you break out the forensics kit and...
Sermon - Feb 2, 2025 (Luke 6) The One that made all the MAGA members leave
In his groundbreaking book, The Sense of Being Stared At and Other Aspects of the Extended Mind , Biologist and author Rupert Sheldrake,...
Sermon - Easter 2024 (Mark 16:1-8)
Prince and the Revolution. Queen. The Beatles. AC/DC. There’s just a certain kind of music that whenever I hear it, it fills me with awe...
Sermon - January 7, 2024 (Acts 19:1-7)
How many of you in this room grew up Lutheran? As for the rest of you, where are you coming from? Lutheran or not, every Christian...
Christmas for Skeptics
In today’s world, just about any person can track down proof that they were in fact, born. For centuries, births and deaths were...







