A Christmas Story and a Caution
Beginning with a Native American Christmas story about an elder meeting in the forrest, Pastor...
A Christmas Story and a Caution
Beginning with a Native American Christmas story about an elder meeting in the forrest, Pastor...
Birth Stories and Choosing to Hear Good News
Through the lens of the birth stories of Moses and Pastor Megan's nephew Adam, we are reminded...
Forgiveness & God's Dirty Underwear
Sometimes God wrestles, kicks us in the butt to become better, nurtures us like a mother and...
The Nagging, Ridiculous Love of God
With the love of a nagging mother, God loves us ridiculously. It's not true that you have to...
Another parable that paints God as a bad farmer. Or, is this a story of Jesus painting a true...
The parable of the stupid farmer
What is the best way to get it together and live the way God wants us to? Is it even up to us,...
A Collage of Stories About God and Marriage
Through the stories of wedding and love, we learn about how our tendency to tell stories changes...
Holy Havic from the Holy Spirit
The story of Pentecost and why it's ok to have diverse understandings and stories about God that...
Jesus stories and stories of baptisms in unusual spaces. Hear stories about how we can feel...
Playing Hide and Seek with God
If getting everything you ask for is the sign that God exists, how can God exist if I didn't get...
Can God's scars make it easier to sit with injustice and our own fragile imperfections? A new...
Laurel's Baptism and the Empty Tomb
How the unexpected baptism of Laurel Rohrer relates to the unexpected followers of Jesus who...
Signs and Symbols of Maundy Thursday
A homily for the Maundy Thursday Service at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in San Francisco.
When you are wronged by medical care and God can you still have faith? The story of the homeless...
A New Parable of the Succulants
Born again? Evangelical? If these words remind you of an exclusive rule based Christianity, then...
Is it possible for the book of Leviticus to provide more Good News than the reading from Matthew?...
Problematic God Metaphors and the Evolution of God
How can we trust that God is with us and for us when there is so much chaos in the world?
Who would be so oblivious that they need someone to come back from the dead before we got our act...
Jesus says we are blessed with others insult and persecute us. Does that mean for the current...
God is bigger than our confusion
The sermon begins with a confused Assistant minister who starts to lead the creed when it is time...