Practicing Radical Gratitude

Practicing Radical Gratitude

Rev. Ashley Harness Sacred Texts: Stone Soup Folktale and Psalm 65 Beloved Lyndale, Welcome to stewardship season, which is the season when we do our annual fundraising campaign to support all the ways we will live out our mission of deepening faith in community,...

Karn Anderson: On Becoming a Pledger

I want to start by saying how grateful I am to be here and to have the opportunity to address you personally. For those of you that don’t know me. My name is Karn and I have worked for Lyndale for close to 9 years. WOW. How is that even possible?!? I am here today to...
To The Women Written On My Heart

To The Women Written On My Heart

By Rev. Ashley Harness Our scripture this morning is from Jeremiah 31. It was written during the exile, when the temple and city were destroyed and there was no good reason to hope. Starvation, death and displacement were the norm. And yet, this is what the prophet...
Healing and Wholeness

Healing and Wholeness

By Wendy Harbour, Director of the National Center for College Students with Disabilities Please pray for me and with me in ASL. [In ASL: Father and Mother of us all, please bless my words and everyone here who is listening. May your spirit move among us. Amen.] And...
Where does it hurt?

Where does it hurt?

By Rev. Ashley Harness Scripture: Lamentations 3:19-26 19 The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall! 20 My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me. 21 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: 22 The steadfast...