Dear St. John’s friends and family, We aren’t the first people to feel like the world is going to end. The people of the Bible felt like that after the resurrection. They were pretty sure Jesus was going to come right back. Living in a fallen broken world is stressful. And whenever we are stressed…

Dear St. John’s friends and family, We start a new sermon series today on hospitality. What does hospitality mean to you and how is it linked to Christ’s command to love?  Jesus commanded us to love our neighbor, one another and our enemy. If we are to take that seriously, how do we live that…

Dear St. John’s friends and family, God is good and greatly to be praised!  We serve and worship a God that is for us. God changes our hearts, renews our minds, and turns our life around. We all have stories that we can share with one another of a God encounter.  Once we encounter God,…

Dear St. John’s friend and family, This is our last week of the current sermon series on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. We will take a look at the last years of his life and a part of his last written work.  More specifically on his thoughts about love and what Christ the Lord commands us to do…

St. John’s friends and family, Last week I had the privilege to watch over a dear friend’s butterfly chrysalises and caterpillars. It’s a fairly easy task. They don’t do much until they do. One day I came home and there was a beautiful butterfly struggling at the bottom of the netted cage. She had fallen…

Dear St. John’s Friends and Family, Today we begin taking a look at the life and writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I don’t want to say too much about it here, except we will be looking at someone who was extremely courageous in a time of extreme uncertainty. When adversity arose, he held on to his…

Dear St. John’s friends and family, This is the last week for our summer sermon series. It’s back to school time!  Throughout the summer, we’ve explored what we know about God. God is present. God is more than we can imagine or expect. God is merciful. God is not like us. And this week we…

Dear St. John’s friends and family, We are all frustrated as we watch the COVID cases rise once again. We thought we were already through the worst of it and now we have begun to wonder whether we are or not. In the midst of this, I am certain of God’s unwavering goodness. The certainty…

Dear St. John’s friends and family, We often forget that God is always close by, always present with us. We get caught up in disappointments, challenges, frustrations and hurt that we forget that God is near. We lose focus on what God is doing and focus on all that goes wrong. Yet, even in the…

Dear St. John’s family and friends,  Pastor Stephanie and her family are on vacation, so I will bring the message this week. Before you begin your time of worship, I encourage you to prepare your heart and mind to be in the presence of God’s Spirit. Breathe in the breath of God. Breathe out any…