St. John’s Lutheran Church28 May 2023 + Day of PentecostActs 2.1-21Rev. Josh Evans (Video unavailable this week.) It was hands-down one of my favorite classes in seminary: Christian Mission and World Religions. Together we took field trips to an Islamic mosque in the suburbs of Chicago and a Buddhist temple in the heart of the …
St. John’s Lutheran Church21 May 2023 + Easter 7aJohn 17.1-11; Acts 1.6-14Rev. Josh Evans It’s been said that our Lutheran faith is one of paradox: sinner and saint, law and gospel, death and resurrection. True to such paradoxical roots, appropriately enough, our Easter season has been drawing to an end where it began – or …
St. John’s Lutheran Church14 May 2023 + Easter 6aJohn 14.15-21; Acts 17.22-31Rev. Josh Evans “Our great father, God almighty, who is Being, knew and loved us from before the beginning of time. And from his knowledge, in his marvelously deep love and through the eternal foreseeing counsel of the whole blessed Trinity, he wanted the …
St. Philip Lutheran Church5 June 2022 + Day of PentecostActs 2.1-21Rev. Josh Evans [Disclaimer: This sermon is going to be interactive, and in a few minutes, I’m going to invite you to share briefly with someone you’re sitting next to. You’ve been warned.] They were all together in one place. For the past 36 hours, …
Continue reading A Sermon about How the Holy Spirit Shows Up
St. Philip Lutheran Church2 May 2021 + Fifth Sunday of EasterActs 8.26-40Rev. Josh Evans, preaching Before we get to the wilderness road between Jerusalem and Gaza, there’s another road between Jerusalem and Emmaus. Two disciples are walking along together, in shared grief over the death of Jesus, when they are joined by an unknown traveler, …
Grace Lutheran Church 1 May 2016 + Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year C) Acts 16.9-15; John 14.23-29 Have you ever been lost? No, I don’t mean lost in the spiritual, “Amazing Grace” sense of the word: “I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.” I mean lost like you’re …
Continue reading A Sermon about the Call of the Holy Siri and Being Rerouted
Pastor Josh Evans 