St. John’s Lutheran ChurchAlbany, New York24 August 2025 + Eleventh Sunday after PentecostProper 16 / Lectionary 21cLuke 13:10-17The Rev. Josh Evans [Content Note: This sermon includes a mention of suicide and mental illness.] *** No one likes being ignored,made to feel unimportant,or worse – invisible. This woman – unnamed as so often women are in …
St. John’s Lutheran ChurchAlbany, New York25 May 2025 + Easter 6cRevelation 21:10, 22—22:5The Rev. Josh Evans Revelation brings us at last through the great cosmic battle.The empire has fallen.Our Lamb has conquered. Revelation brings us at last to the new Jerusalem,a new heaven and a new earth. Except … did you notice?We don’t go to …
St. John’s Lutheran ChurchAlbany, New York21 April 2024 + Fourth Sunday of EasterJohn 10:11-18Rev. Josh Evans Here are two words I never thought I’d hear together: “Swift scholar.” As in: a scholar – not of 18th century Anglo-Irish priest and satire author Jonathan Swift – but of 21st century singer-songwriter Taylor Swift … … who, …
St. John’s Lutheran Church4 February 2024 + Epiphany 5bMark 1:29-39Rev. Josh Evans Give the woman a break! As quickly as Jesus takes her by the hand, lifts her up out of bed, and cures her of her fever, she gets up and begins to serve them?! It sounds ridiculous – and a little sexist – …
St. John’s Lutheran Church28 January 2024 + Epiphany 4bMark 1:21-28Rev. Josh Evans Diana was a passionate and gifted art curator when she began to suffer from symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and dementia. Possessed by illness, she started to experience vivid hallucinations, while John tried his best to enter into his wife’s world, to see what …
St. Philip Lutheran Church9 October 2022 + Lect. 28c (Pentecost 18)Luke 17.11-19Rev. Josh Evans “I was screaming out for help and no one was stopping to even notice and I’ve never felt more voiceless.” When she was starting out at a new school in 7th grade, the beginning of her middle and high school career, …
St. Philip Lutheran Church7 November 2021 + All SaintsJohn 11.32-44Rev. Josh Evans I’m not sure what it says about me that two of my favorite days on the church calendar have to do with death. First, there’s Ash Wednesday, where we are honest about our human condition, our sin, our brokenness, our frailty … marking …
St. Philip Lutheran Church|27 June 2021 + Lectionary 13B (Pent. 5)Mark 5.21-43Rev. Josh Evans, preaching It was a quiet morning at the Cleveland Clinic, and I was near the end of an overnight on-call shift as I made my way to visit the family of a patient who had just died. It was at that …
St. Philip Lutheran Church31 January 2021 + Epiphany 4BMark 1.21-28Rev. Josh Evans, preaching What are you possessed by? The truth is we’re possessed by many things - politics, COVID, mental or physical illness, addiction, strained or broken relationships - to name a few. Some of us might feel possessed by our seemingly never-ending to-do lists, …
Unity Lutheran Church + Christ the King Campus22 March 2020 + Lent 4AJohn 9.1-41; Psalm 23Rev. Josh Evans, preaching This week at Unity, we live-streamed our Saturday liturgy at the Cross of Life Campus and our Sunday liturgy at the Christ the King Campus. The CTK recording (or at least the majority of it, [no] …
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