Sermons

Sin, transgression, iniquity: These things we carry in our hearts as memories of past or current actions and choices. Though they are intangible, they are extremely heavy and hard to carry around. They weigh us down and we expend a lot of energy trying to keep them quiet, in the dark.

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