Practicing Enoughness

Practicing Enoughness

Rev. Ashley Harness Scripture: The Loaves and Fishes Listen here:   On Thursday, I didn’t buy anything. It took being three hours away from the Twin Cities, secluded at a cabin where my cell phone didn’t get service. Instead, we already had just what we needed...
Fermenting the Realm of God

Fermenting the Realm of God

Rev. Ashley Harness Matthew 13: 31-33 Listen here: I want you to imagine yourself by your favorite lake. In fact, just move all of us gathered here at Lyndale in your mind to your favorite lake. Because when we meet Jesus today, he’s teaching his disciples, his...
The Resistance Will Be Salty

The Resistance Will Be Salty

Rev. Ashley Harness Scripture: Matthew 5:13-20 Good morning beloveds. I don’t know about you, but these last two weeks or so since the inauguration have been pretty devastating and exhausting for me. We knew it would be bad. Many of us knew our own humanity or the...
Blessed are the protesters

Blessed are the protesters

Rev. Ashley Harness [On the Sunday after Inauguration, 2017] Scripture: Matthew 4:12-23 As I imagine this scripture, I try to put myself in the scenes of this ancient story. John the Bapist – the radical dissident against the Roman Empire who was both Jesus’ spiritual...
Advent: Defiant Hope

Advent: Defiant Hope

Rev. Ashley Harness Scripture: Matthew 24:36-44 ‘But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Child, but only the Parent. For as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Child of Humanity. For as in those days before the...