Sermons from Lyndale
Trusting God, Acting Now
This Sunday as we launched our congregation's participation in the 50th anniversary of the Poor People's Campaign, four of us shared our calls and discernment around faithful direct action, held in holy embrace. Listen to Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel, Elly Wagner, Rebecca...
Glimpses of God: Lessons from parenting an infant
Listen here: Scripture: John 15:9-12 What does one say to their beloved community after two months away on family leave? First, one says thank you. Thank you, beloved Lyndale, for the tremendous gift of a just and generous family leave. As I begin my last month of...
An Unsettling Force…
But then the question becomes how do we trust what we can’t see? How do we trust that the kin-dom of God is even possible? That ending poverty or racism is even possible? How do we find the fortitude to keep doing this work? We don’t get Jesus walking through our locked doors and showing us his wounds. What we get is the story of it. We get the poor and oppressed all around us showing us their wounds, from gunshots in black bodies made by police, to women bravely sharing #MeToo stories, to the estimated 145 million people still living in poverty or economic insecurity in the richest country in the world. We see his wounds in them, and in our own woundedness.