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Nov 1, 20222 min read
The Friendship of Saints
It feels like one of the most special aspects of friendship when you start to take on the mannerisms and jokes and vocabulary of the...
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Oct 28, 20225 min read
Who asked this from your hand?
It feels really important to me to name that this sentiment we sometimes hold that "old testament God is mean and different from nice God...
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Oct 25, 20222 min read
This long-standing tradition
One of the most fun (and least expected) parts of being a pastor is hearing from someone about a topic that they would like to learn more...
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Oct 7, 20226 min read
Healing, Being Healed
Luke 17:11-19 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers...
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Sep 9, 20226 min read
Finding the Lost, and Losing the Found
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have a really weird job. Not weird bad, weird great, but weird complicated. My role is many...
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Sep 3, 20227 min read
Those of you who do not give up everything
Why,,, would Jesus say this. Why. Like, why. I don't want to hate my family -- I quite like my family and it feels so opposite from what...
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Aug 30, 20222 min read
Church can be a lonely place
Sunday morning can be one of the loneliest places at church. If it's your first time, if you haven't been in ages, or if you just moved...
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Aug 20, 20227 min read
Sermon | There are six days on which work ought to be done
Well Christ Lutheran Church, somehow suddenly it is the start of another school year and frankly I have not a clue where the summer went....
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Jul 25, 20222 min read
Puzzle Pieces
It's fun work to be a young adult missioner, because the young adult mission is simple: build something fun and relational and faithful...
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Jul 23, 20226 min read
Sermon | Outwit. Outplay. Outlast.
Something that I know about myself is that I am not really all that hardy of a person – I keep my AC set on 69 and if it squeaks up to 72...
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May 26, 20225 min read
for the feast of the Ascension
Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? What a heart-breaking world we live in. What an absolutely gutting,...
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May 12, 20223 min read
Spring 2022 in Review~ #ELCMWrapped
For a chronology of our semester in the form of a picture gallery, scroll down just a little further! It feels like every time we get our...
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Apr 26, 20223 min read
Finals Week Survival Kits
It can be intimidating, as a new campus minister, to think about campus outreach. Where's the highest foot traffic place to table? Collar...
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Apr 25, 20225 min read
A Journey of (Un)Belief
I remember being eight years old -- it was wild to be eight years old and think back on all the things you knew and didn't know -- well I...
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Apr 14, 20223 min read
Maundy Thursday
Jesus says: "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this...
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Apr 10, 20223 min read
Entering with reverence
Every priest as part of their preparation for ordination, has to complete a hospital chaplaincy internship -- ten or eleven weeks spent...
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Apr 2, 20226 min read
Week 5: God's Word
Every Wednesday evening at 8:30pm, without fail, after I close Zoom, I open the little Twitter app on my phone and I tweet: "not to be...
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Mar 19, 20222 min read
What are we trying to build?
A few days ago, I recorded an episode of my podcast, Non-Working Title, with Pastor Chelsea from Micah Ecumenical Ministries. The podcast...
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Feb 4, 20224 min read
From now on, you'll be fishing for people
I think we take for granted just how different the shape of Jesus' ministry was from our own. He was itinerant, traveling from town to...
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Jan 30, 20223 min read
When They Try To Throw You Off A Cliff, and other unrelatable stories of Jesus
At the risk of being pedantic, sometimes it can be illuminating to ask some obvious questions, or at least questions that seem obvious....
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