Month: March 2015
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Mind the Gap
Sometimes, another person speaks the truth of the Gospel so well that it is almost impossible to imagine saying it any better. This is one of those weeks. Most of the thinking in this sermon is indebted to the thinking of Craig Satterlee, a Lutheran Bishop in Lower Michigan Synod, whose “logjam” on Lent 5 informed the…
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Talkers and Doers
If there is one thing that the Lenten Season does for us as Christians, it is this: it puts in stark relief the difference between talking and doing. Over the course of the season, we are asked to reflect on what it means to be not just hearers of the Word, but doers as well,…
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Eli’s Tips and Tricks for Living Well
1Then God spoke all these words: 2I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3you shall have no other gods before me. 4You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that…
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Not Enough Hours In the Day….
There is this wonderful woodcut that I came across a while back called “8 Hours.”* It is a triptych, really, and there are three images with the following captions: 8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will. I love this woodcut, in part because it resonated with my own…
Deeper in me than I 