Read a new sermon each week from one of our Traditional Services.
The Rite of Confirmation has been around a long time. Over the years it has been characterized by white and red robes … the examination of confirmands in front of the congregation … lofty talk about becoming “members” of the congregation (even though we have always become members of the church through baptism) … gifts…
Easter 5 Traditional Sermon Grace, peace, and the reconciliation found in love to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. First of all let me wish all the mothers in the room a Happy Mother’s Day. The relationship between a child and their mother is unlike any other. Sometimes that relationship is strong and…
Traditional Sermon Easter 4 Today is Good Shepherd Sunday where we read scripture that point to God’s shepherding nature in our world. We especially raise the goodness of the ultimate Shepherd, Jesus. The idea of Jesus as the good shepherd is one of the earliest depictions of the Christ in our Christian art and architecture.…
Traditional Sermon We don’t want to be here. We avoid death. We’re alive. And as living beings we avoid everything about death. Our eyes shift toward tragedy until we encounter the source of death and quickly our eyes turn away to things of life. Our noses find the smell of decay and long for clean,…
Lent 3 Traditional Sermon Grace, peace, and love to you all from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who desires nothing more than to be in relationship with you all and for all of you to be in relationship with each other. Amen Relationships are the materials from which we construct our world. Relationships are…
TRADITIONAL SERMON Transfiguration Sunday Two weekends ago while on retreat with our high school youth at camp Nawakwa, I had the chance to lead a hike to Upper Temple at 10:00 on Saturday night. In my years of retreat leadership at Nawakwa, I’ve been to Upper Temple dozens of times – most of them at…
