St. John’s Lutheran ChurchAlbany, New York30 March 2025 + Lent 4cLuke 15:1-3, 11b-32The Rev. Josh Evans “Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to [Jesus]. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, ‘This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he told them this parable…” Actually, …
St. John’s Lutheran ChurchAlbany, New York23 March 2025 + Lent 3cIsaiah 55:1-9The Rev. Josh Evans “Water! Water! We praise you, O God, for water –the rain that nourishes animals and plants,the water for drinking and bathing.We praise you, O God, for water. “We praise you, O God, for our water stories –a flood that cleansed …
St. John’s Lutheran ChurchAlbany, New York16 March 2025 + Lent 2cLuke 13:31-35The Rev. Josh Evans It’s an ancient image,rooted in the writings of the early churchand in scripture itself. Anselm of Canterbury, writing in the 11th century,speaks of Jesus as a mother who gathers us. The medieval mystic Julian of Norwich writesof Christ, our true …
St. John’s Lutheran ChurchAlbany, New York9 March 2025 + Lent 1cLuke 4:1-13The Rev. Josh Evans “The passion of Christ begins not in the week of suffering but already with the first day of his preaching,” as Dietrich Bonhoeffer observes, in a brief homily on this very gospel, preached to the students of the Berlin Technical …
St. John’s Lutheran ChurchAlbany, New York5 March 2025 + Ash WednesdayRev. Josh Evans Nothing gets a bunch of clergy and seminarians so riled up, it seems, as a singular Facebook post advertising an upcoming Ash Wednesday service with “Glitter Ash.” You heard that right:Glitter. Ash. Popularized in 2017, the Glitter Ash “movement” was organized as …
Lutheran Church of the Holy SpiritAlbany, New York2 March 2025 + Transfiguration of Our LordLuke 9:28-43aRev. Josh Evans Now about eight days after these sayings… What sayings? “Who do you say that I am?” Jesus asked Peter, just eight days ago. “The Messiah of God,” Peter responds, only to be met with Jesus’ stern warning …
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