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We can’t do it
Pentecost 21B October 14, 2018 Hope Lutheran Church Riverside, CA Mark 10:17-31 Mark is getting hard. The lessons the past few weeks are leading us to the cross and in all honesty, they are uncomfortable. I could try to make these feel less…
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You don’t have to be the greatest. You just have to be you.
Pentectost 18 B- September 23, 2018 Hope Lutheran Church-Riverside CA There is a new movie on Netflix, “Nappily Ever After.” It is the story of a woman of color and her struggle with personal identity. Because her hair was typical of her ethnicity, it was full of curl and kink,…
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A Responsive God
Pentecost 16B- Hope Lutheran Church- Riverside, CA- Sept 9, 2018 Mark 7: 24-37 I don’t have a moving story this morning. The gospel today IS the story. It has all the elements of the best sermon illustrations- discomfort, joy, hope, emotion and ah-ha moments. I am excited by this passage.…
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The Little Places- Pentecost 10B
Focus of John 6:1-21 We just finished a week of Vacation Bible School. My very first as a pastor. It was wonderful and we all had a great time. And I am exhausted. I joked on social media that I would take Holy Week anytime over VBS. The level of…
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Who is this Guy?
Who is this guy??? Listen (below) or read on for my sermon on Mark 6:1-15 Pentecost 6 B- Hope Lutheran Church- July 8, 2018 It was a tragic story. In 2006 a university van carrying nine students collided with a semi truck. Give young people died that day. Among…
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Rise Up, Daughter, and Live
A sermon for Hope Lutheran Church in Riverside, CA on July 1, 2018 Mark 5:21-43 The woman was on the brink of death. Her cancer was winning. She said goodbye to her students and within weeks was bed-ridden. Conversations turned to her last wishes. Life was miserable and clouded with…
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Turning Points
Trinity Sunday Sermon Isaiah 6:1-8 Focal Point Today we hear the call story of Isaiah- and of Nicodemus. In fact, the call story of every person who hears the word of Christ. But not every one answers, “here I am Lord.” Woe the Unclean lips We have all had some…
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Love that is Life
It has been growing- this message I am writing today. And this week, I have been bombarded by the Holy Spirit to finally preach it. Please pray for the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart as well as the hearts and spirits of those in addiction…
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It’s not my power- Thank GOD!
Easter 4 B-April 22, 2018-Hope Lutheran Church, Riverside, CA I am the Door, the Gate, the Way Shepherds are a fertile image for the people who live close to the land, which of course, we rarely do in places like the greater Los Angeles Basin. They understood the metaphorical implications…
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I am Witness.
Easter III Year B, Sermon I am witness. While living in Florida, we were dirt poor. Lance was a reservist and was working on his degree, but we had nearly no income. We lived in government subsidized housing, or as some will know it, Housing Authority. We were so…
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