Tag: Grace

• Rest and Grace (sermon – July 9, 2017)

  

  Last Tuesday, the Fourth of July, was a blissfully inactive day at our house. It was one of those rare, precious days when we were all at home the whole day. We made no plans for any of it and just did what we wanted – which, for me, included about three movies, a walk,…

  Ruth E. Hetland

  July 11, 2017

  Sermons, Uncategorized

  David Whyte, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Grace, rest, Ruth Hetland, Saint Peter’s Lutheran Audubon, Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church, sermon

• 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…

  Ruth E. Hetland

  June 28, 2015

  Justice, Sermons, This Clergy Life

  acceptance, Amazing Grace, church, gay, Grace, Jesus, lesbian, love, scotus

• Reformation

  For a long time, many years of my ministry, it seemed like the recipe for a good Reformation Sunday sermon was to tell the story about Martin Luther again and again. And it never occurred to me to do anything else until I read an article by a well-respected Lutheran theologian last year who said,…

  Ruth E. Hetland

  November 6, 2014

  Faith and Doubt

  Chad L. Bird, Flying Scroll, Grace, Reformation, Reformation Sermon