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] …
Unity Lutheran Church + Christ the King Campus13 October 2019 + Lectionary 28CLuke 17.11-19Rev. Josh Evans, preaching For the past several weeks, I’ve been carrying one, single, “AA” battery with me in my bag. And not just any “AA” battery, but a dead “AA” battery. And you might ask, “Pastor Josh, why are you carrying …
Unity Lutheran Church + Cross of Life Campus7 July 2019 + Lectionary 14C2 Kings 5.1-14, (15-19a); Luke 10.1-11, 16-20Rev. Josh Evans, preaching If “healing stories in the Bible” were a Family Feud category, survey says… the story of Naaman probably isn’t on the board. Which is a shame. Because it’s such a fascinating story. So …
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Unity Lutheran Church + Cross of Life Campus3 March 2019 + Transfiguration of Our LordLuke 9.28-43aRev. Josh Evans, preaching In the week I spent in El Salvador, with several other Unity folks and a handful of others during the 2019 Mission of Healing trip, I was: An optometrist A dental hygienist A massage therapist A …
Edgebrook Lutheran Church, Chicago 1 July 2018 + Lectionary 13B (Pentecost 6) Mark 5.21-43 “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore…” Those are, of course, Judy Garland’s, aka Dorothy Gale’s, famous words from The Wizard of Oz as she takes her first steps in Munchkinland. Those words have also become somewhat of …
This Sunday, I had the opportunity to worship with the people of God at First Lutheran Church, a neighboring ELCA congregation not far from Augustana. You can read more about the ministry FLC is up to in Omaha on their website. First Lutheran Church, Omaha, NE 21 August 2016 + Lectionary 21C Luke 13.10-17 Some …
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Pastor Josh Evans 