April 27, 2025
Introduction: The Worship Committee realized a few weeks ago that there would be a collision between Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Earth Day, and the annual Stewardship campaign, which don’t all seem to fit together! And that was before we knew a candidate would be coming...
April 20, 2025 Easter Sunday
Gospel Reading: John 20:1-18 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved,...
Hosanna as Pain, Hope, and Power
Mark 11:1-11 Lyndale UCC- April 13, 2025 Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel Holy One, sacred energy of love, sinew that binds together the web of life, radical mystic called Jesus, pour yourself upon us in this time and place. Touch my mouth and all of our hearts that the words...
April 6, 2025
Gospel Reading: Luke 15:11-32 In times like this, when the day to day news is so unsettling, I find myself calmed by big picture thinking. So, I’ve been reading a book by the social scientist Robert Putnam called “The Upswing”. He’s the person who wrote “Bowling...