I Corinthians 11:23-26 “I don’t really want a Shamrock Shake. I just want the feeling I had: 7 years old and my mom bought me one after the parade.” My cousin Greg posted this on Facebook a few weeks back. His status update touched me so that first I found myself laughing and then tearing up …
Month: March 2012
When Dying Means Living…
John 12:20-33 Some of you will recall that I began an exercise class in January. The first week I hurt all the time. And I do mean all the time. Oh, it didn’t hit right away. In fact, that first day I drove my hour’s commute to work feeling rather proud of myself and a little smug, thinking …
Wearing My Sin on the Front of My Alb
John 3:14-21 It was, in fact, the first time I had ever preached on this Gospel text. I was in my first year of seminary and I was preaching that Sunday morning in my teaching parish at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in St. Paul. Since this would be the first time I actually stepped into …
Barriers and Broken Hearts
John 2:13-22 It was a long time ago now… an Easter morning, in fact, and my mother and I were heading out to church. We were visiting my sister and she had thought about joining us, but it was a particularly heartbreaking time in her life and she decided at the last minute that she …