Complaining to God

Complaining to God

Our Good Life Series brings us to the topic of Emotions this week. Emotions in church? Maybe the Pentecostals are into that, but this is a Lutheran church full of people descended from Scandanavians. It’s more like the first church of Vulcan than a place where...
Caricature of Sherlock and Watson

Caricature of Sherlock and Watson

I started this sketch on my iPad in Procreate while waiting for my daughter’s graduation ceremony to start. I noodled it for a while in Procreate and then brought it into Corel Painter 2016 on my Mac to finish. It’s nice to be able to transfer between...
A Sermon on the Good Life in Community

A Sermon on the Good Life in Community

This sermon continues our summer series on The Good Life. It also happened to fall on the Weekend of Independence Day in the USA. So, we explore the difference between the American Dream of the Good Life and the God Dream of the Good Life that Jesus promised to bring....
Preparing for The Good Life

Preparing for The Good Life

Our summer worship series is called “The Good Life.” Here is the blurb from the sermons page (visit this page to catch all the sermon audio): This summer we focus on the reality of life. As humans, we are born with an impulse to make sense of life. What,...
Caricature of Sherlock and Watson

A Rebuttal to My Confessions of a Suburban Pastor

I was rebuked via Facebook Messenger for my post yesterday in which I commented on the relative affluence we enjoy in our suburban context. The author of this rebuke gave me permission to post it. Hi Pastor Steve. I noticed your blog post today. I have been debating...

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