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12 mins read|04/03/22
Gospel: Luke 19:28-40 (Palm Sunday: Series C)
The image on Palm Sunday is about something so primordial, so powerful and ancient, so deep, that it would shatter any kind of limits. It would break through any attempt to restrain it. -
10 mins read|11/21/21
Gospel: Luke 19:28-40 (Advent 1: Series C)
The oddness of this moment, at the beginning of Advent, is God’s way of saying, “The reason I’m here...” -
13 mins read|11/15/19
A Thanksgiving Day Sermon
The following is an excerpt from “A Year of Grace Volume 2” written by Bo Giertz and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2019). -
15 mins read|03/31/19
The Law and the Already Terrified Conscience
Where contrition is evident, the conscience has already been prodded, piqued, finally terrified. More Law only serves to confirm the lie this person is already at risk of believing: that the last work of the conscience is also God’s last word. But God’s last word is the word of absolution, not the confirmation of the conscience’s testimony, but now its contradiction. -
9 mins read|11/25/18
Gospel: Luke 19:28-40 (Advent 1, Series C)
I must admit, I have never liked preaching on (or reading) a Palm Sunday text to begin Advent. All three years in the lectionary include this option, but in nine years of pastoral ministry I went this route only once (It was my first year). Why did I not do it again? -
11 mins read|09/03/18
We Get to Go Home Justified
Jesus says that none of our goodness is good enough to pass muster. Likewise, none of our badness is bad enough to propel us outside Jesus’ death for sin.
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