Merry Christmas! For Christmas Day 2024, we had a joint worship service at Christ the King. It was mostly a hymn-sing, but I also shared this brief message about the song I Wonder as I Wander, partially inspired by Cameron
Merry Christmas! Tonight’s Christmas Eve sermon concludes this year’s Advent series, Grace-Filled Beginnings, from the ELCA’s Western North Dakota Synod. Tonight, we hear the story of God’s grace entering the world in the person of Jesus Christ, born in Bethlehem and
Merry Christmas! On this final Sunday of 2023, we continue celebrating Christmas by hearing in worship the story of Mary and Joseph dedicating the baby Jesus in the temple. In that traditional ritual, something unexpected happens as a man named
Christmas is about making room, because God has made room for us. Through this baby born at Christmas, God calls us to look beyond the weariness of this world, beyond the weariness of our lives, and with a thrill of
This week, we continue the Christmas story, but we move from the joy of celebrating Jesus’ birth to looking at the world’s reaction. Threatened by the news of a King’s birth, Herod moves to eliminate the threat by killing the