The other night I went to a concert at the 9:30 club. The band was called Volcano Choir. You’ve probably never heard of them. The lead singer, Justin Vernon, once had a slightly more famous group called “Bon Iver.” They sang plaintive acoustic ballads about “skinny love.” Justin Vernon, the lead singer, took the stageContinueContinue reading “God at the 9:30 club: Evangelism and the Lost Sheep”
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Gritty faith
I feel like I need to start this sermon with a bit of an apology. Here we are. It’s summer, August in Washington. Feels like half the city is on vacation, and yet you are here. You came to church. And then we had these readings. Isaiah is trampling vineyards. The book of Hebrews isContinueContinue reading “Gritty faith”
A Sermon on Privacy
Today’s lessons give us two very different images of men who are secluded. Elijah the Tishbite, on the run from Ahab and Jezebel, hides in a cave on Mt. Horeb. A man from Geras inhabits the tombs outside the village because his seizures make him unfit to live with the other Gerasenes. Both men haveContinueContinue reading “A Sermon on Privacy”
Jesus, Marriage, and Divorce
Three years ago, when I was a seminarian, I remember listening to Luis preach a sermon about these lessons. I don’t remember the whole sermon, but I do remember Luis beginning by summoning all of that theological heft we’ve been missing during his sabbatical, all of that gravitas Luis has when he preaches. So threeContinueContinue reading “Jesus, Marriage, and Divorce”
Mike Angell 