Faith Lutheran Church

06/16/2026

"Jesus looks around.
So.
Many.
Faces.
He feels the hunger.
He knows the obstacles people face to just survive,
the challenges to get care basic needs met.
He sees the failures in official leadership to ensure the thriving of the people entrusted to their care.
He hears the cries of despair."

Yesterday's sermon:

No one should be that fu***ng rich.Full lectionary Matthew 9:35-10:8 [9-23]

06/07/2026

"Again, thanks to A-J, we know that while most translations say “heal,” the Greek term means “to be saved.”
She’s seeking salvation.
And end to the bleeding.
[...]
And, now, following in the way of Jesus,
we get to look around our homes and communities,
this world,
and see who needs saving.
We get to look within ourselves and identify our gifts for offering relief and salvation.
[...]
I’ve read that the reason L for le***an comes first in LGBTQIA+ is because it was the le***ans who cared for the gay men dying of AIDS.
When no one else wanted to touch them,
and they were banished to die alone in wards, abandoned by family,
it was the gay women who gave them water to drink, washed their bodies, held them in their last moments.
Salvation."

Today's sermon:

Matthew 9:9;13, 18-26.The blood is about the hemorrhaging woman and HIV/AIDS.

05/31/2026

We need diverse images of God because we,
in all our diversity of being,
are images of the Divine One.

Today's sermon:

We are divine.

05/24/2026

"It’s been making me think a bit this week
about how many of you, particularly- but not exclusively- women,
said last week during our sermon discussion that you don’t see yourselves as divine.
Completely new concept or idea,
rooted in what so many of us have grown up being told:
that God is divine, and humans are sinners.

Our own beings created in the image of divinity…
meh."

Today's sermon: https://open.spotify.com/episode/77zRDMnuIISKnoS6XevEOs?si=PqM7BIOlSBWFdspHgNi4sw

Curiosity. Faith. Questions. · Episode

05/10/2026

"But I like what Nigerian-American writer, Enuma Okoro, says Paul is speaking to the human experience of seeking divinity,
and, by quoting their poetry, their literature, appeals to them personally.
He acknowledges their journey and what they have found;
then he shares his own spiritual journey,
believing that he has found something essential,
and that within that experience he is compelled to share it with others."

Today's sermon: https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/zQU0extZ12b

05/03/2026

Ever wonder about the first Christian martyr? Here's a chance to find out!
Today's sermon:

Whoops! noticed partway through reading the gospel I hadn't hit record. (We don't talk about it today anyway; come to a funeral to hear it discussed.)Read Acts, esp. 6:1-8:2 for the Stephen stuff. (Assigned lectionary: 7:55-60.)

04/26/2026

In the Greco-Roman world of the time,
and among specific Jewish groups,
holding all things in common is how they lived.

What would it be like for us to hold all things in common
so that each person got according to their need,
regardless of ability to “pay”?

We get a glimpse of these possibilities in our public libraries.
All those books! and other materials that we all have access to- for just a few dollars of tax money a year!
Sure, technically the materials are “property of” the library,
but they’re also held in common by the community.

Today's sermon:

Forgot to hit record before reading the gospel. But I didn't talk about it anyway. Read Acts 2:42-47.

04/05/2026

"On that first Easter morning,
as the stone was rolled away with the supernatural power of earth and heaven,
Mary and Mary bore witness to the limits of political power.

The world didn’t outwardly change.
The Roman empire stayed in power for a few hundred more years,
replaced by another,
and they by another,
on down through history into today’s own empires and oligarchies.

We labor for others’ wealth while scraping by ourselves,
picking and choosing our own costs of living,
our men are sent to war,
our children exploited and abused,
and women are crushed, holding all these things.

But the world did change for Mary and Mary,
the first witnesses to the end of all things."

Today's Resurrection Sunday sermon:

My latest wondering.

03/29/2026

Today we gather in worship,
waving palms,
shouting, “Hosanna! Save us!”

Not quite two thousand years ago the people shouted to be saved from Caesar, from violent occupation, domination.

Eight years ago, kids led the cries for salvation from gun violence in their schools, homes, public places.

Yesterday people across the continent, shouted
“Save us from
kings
war
dictatorship
fascism
climate change
violence
tyranny
abuse
corruption …

and on and on and on.

Today's sermon: