Category: Justice
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George Floyd
“If you (as a white person) are not listening, not exposing yourself to unfamiliar perspectives, not watching videos, not engaging in conversation, then you are perpetuating white privilege and white supremacy. It is exactly your ability to not hear, to ignore the situation, that is a mark of your privilege. People of color cannot turn…
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Sermon – November 13, 2016 – A Letter to My Sons
Grace and peace to you on this Lord’s day in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen. When our boys were teeny-tiny, back in Colorado, my sermon one Sunday took the form of a letter to our boys. It was mostly advice, inspired by the gospel that day, about things I hoped they would…
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Aylan (sermon from 9/6/15 at Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church)
Dear Aylan, I saw the picture of you in the news this week. I, along with the rest of the world, saw you there – lying on the beach, your body lifeless. Your little red shirt and blue shorts, tiny tennis-shoes. At first my mind didn’t understand what I was seeing until my eyes scanned the…
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Okay, God, What Next? (a sermon from June 28, 2015)
I was ordained almost sixteen years ago. I had a shiny new call in hand from a little church in Western New York and planned the ordination service at my home church – Good Shepherd Lutheran in Henning, Minnesota. My pastor from all my growing up years, Rev. Darrell Vetter, preached. Bishop Arlen Hermodson of…
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Those Kids Are Our Kids (Sermon from 5/3/15)
When I was in my early twenties I traveled for a couple years with Youth Encounter – an organization that sends out teams of 5-7 people to churches throughout the United States and other countries and the teams put on programs to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ through music and story and puppet shows. …