Sermons

Names, the ones we’re given and the ones we give ourselves, are important because they identify us. They are a part of us. Maybe you’ve been internalizing, taking on some life-taking, wound-inflicting names—old, slow, stupid, failure, fat, ugly, failure, drug addict, worthless. In the

We always need to take a moment to ask how we are doing, because the major work and major heartache of living together has no end destination, really. We are always on this journey charting courses and then leaving ourselves open to the Spirit’s lead to take us where the Spirit will take us. We

In today’s Gospel the disciples have gone back to fishing. The events of Easter were over and they struggled to figure out what would happen next. As we pass Easter, we are not at an end, but a beginning. Jesus says tells Peter: “Feed my lambs. …Tend my sheep. …Feed my

Being in church on Easter–or any other day — does not make you perfect. It does not transform you into a saint. What it does do is put you in that place where you have a chance to hear Jesus say your name, and in that moment of hearing, to know that resurrection and new life truly