Sermons from Lyndale

The Prodigal Child Has Gotten a Bad Rap

The Prodigal Child Has Gotten a Bad Rap

Will I ever be able to join the celebration of unconditional love by letting go whatever it is within that insists I have to earn the air I breathe and the anger and self-pity this self-inflicted insistence so often engenders?

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King Sunday: Abundance & Beloved Community

King Sunday: Abundance & Beloved Community

Now is certainly a time of challenge and controversy in our nation and even in our own community here at Lyndale. In the midst of it, like Mary and like King, we must also hold in loving care both the disparity we live and the possibility for abundance. It’s the combination that is so hard.

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Advent: Birthing Hope in Chaos

Advent: Birthing Hope in Chaos

This Advent season, let us practice knowing our ignorance to what is being born in our midst, especially the divinity in the bodies of those who look different than ourselves. Because something beautiful and divine is being birthed in our city at the 4th precinct too.

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