Sermons
May 20, 2018 (Day of Pentecost) – Acts 2:1-21
Acts 2:1-21 The Spirit Honours Difference Day of Pentecost – May 20, 2018 First Lutheran Church – Winnipeg, MB We live in increasingly divided times – which is not news to anyone. What is in the news is how much language is exposing how much we are divided. Recently several people have been caught […]
May 13, 2018 – Acts 1:15-17, 21-26
Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 God is Working 7th Sunday of Easter – May 13, 2018 First Lutheran Church – Winnipeg, MB We’ve gone back a bit in the book of Acts – nearly to the beginning. You’ll remember that Acts and Luke come in a nice boxed set for Christmas – they were both written […]
May 6, 2018 – Acts 10:44-48, John 15:9-17
Acts 10:44-48; John 15:9-17 Expanding the Circle of Friends 6th Sunday of Easter – May 6, 2018 First Lutheran Church – Winnipeg, MB It’s weird when a god calls you friend, right? Christianity is a strange religion, and I think we need to reclaim some of its strangeness. We frequently call Jesus “Lord,” much less […]
April 29, 2018 – Acts 8:26-40
Acts 8:26-40 The Eunuch and the Evangelist Fifth Sunday of Easter – April 29, 2018 First Lutheran Church – Winnipeg, MB I just love this story in Acts about the powerful eunuch from Ethiopia – and Phillip who finds himself in a weird situation. First: some straight talk. A eunuch was a man whose testicles […]
April 22, 2018 – Psalm 23
Psalm 23 Dark Valleys and Green Pastures Fourth Sunday of Easter – April 22, 2018 First Lutheran Church – Winnipeg, MB Psalm 23 continues its climb up the charts of all time favourite scripture passages. Even if you don’t know the Bible, chances are you know the 23rd Psalm. Psalms are, simply, songs that […]
April 15, 2018 – Luke 24:36b-48
Luke 24:36b-48 The Risen Jesus is Hungry Third Sunday of Easter – April 15, 2018 First Lutheran Church – Winnipeg, MB I went to see Steven Spielberg’s new film Ready Player One this past week – and it was a lot of fun. It is a story set in 2045, when the real world […]
April 8, 2018 – John 20:19-31
John 20:19-31 The Patron Saint of Those Who Yearn Second Sunday of Easter – April 8, 2018 First Lutheran Church – Winnipeg, MB When I was 19, I went to India and travelled around for a month or so. We went everywhere: east, west, north, and south. When we went as far south as […]
April 1, 2018 (Easter Sunday) – Mark 16:1-8
Mark 16:1-8 Are You Joking, Mark? Resurrection of our Lord – Easter Sunday April 1, 2018 Boy are you in for a treat! The last time Easter Sunday fell on April Fools’ day was in 1956!!!! Is there anyone here who remembers that? It doesn’t happen often. The next time it will happen will […]
March 30, 2018 (Good Friday) – John 18:1-19:42
John 18:1-19:42 The Triumphs of Love Good Friday – March 30, 2018 First Lutheran Church – Winnipeg, MB “Jesus died of being human,” writes the theologian Herbert McCabe. He goes on to explain, “In the world we have made it is fatal to be human, to be open and vulnerable to others, to be loving.” […]
March 29, 2018 (Maundy Thursday) – John 13:1-17, 31b-35
John 13:1-17, 31b-35 Maundy Thursday – March 29, 2018 First Lutheran Church – Winnipeg, MB When Jesus gets up and assumes the role of servant, the disciples are shocked. Peter is so shocked he almost refuses to let Jesus wash his feet. But Jesus assures him that if he doesn’t wash his feet, Peter […]
