November 25, 2018                        Hope Lutheran Church                         Riverside, CA Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14                          Rev 1:4b-8                  …

November 18, 2018                        Hope Lutheran Church                       Riverside, CA The end is coming.  Finally. Oh, not the end from Daniel or the guy on the street corner shouting, I was speaking of the end of…

November 11, 2018                   Hope Lutheran Church               Riverside, CA Mark 12:38-44 Welcome to the time of year in most churches when we talk at the table about impolite things, like  caring for the immigrant, feeding the poor, or welcoming the stranger, also…

Reformation 2018  ~    Hope Lutheran Church  ~  Riverside, CA Well, the honeymoon is over.  A year ago we made a promise. A year ago I stood before Bishop Andy Taylor and spoke words of commitment and hope, of service and accountability.  I waited 13 years of school and finding a call to speak those…

Pentecost 22B     October 21, 2018 Hope Lutheran Church~~~~Riverside CA Mark 10:35-45 They say “third time’s a charm.”  And yet, here we are with James and John and they don’t get it again.  Our Gospel today begins with two of the church’s future saints treating the Son of Humanity like he was a holy ticket…

Happy 502nd Anniversary, reforming church.  What a good and blessed thing it is to be given a chance to be made new.  I for one am grateful every day that I am not stuck as the same person I was the day before.  The old me has a chance to die every evening, a new…