St. John’s Lutheran ChurchAlbany, New York4 August 2024 + Lectionary 18bJohn 6:24-35Rev. Josh Evans “Sometimes bread is just bread,”as the brilliant New Testament scholar Dr. Barbara Rossing once suggested,following a decisively eucharistic sermon I had just delivered on John chapter 6 one afternoon during a preaching class at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. …
St. Philip Lutheran Church28 August 2022 + Lect. 22c (Pentecost 12)Luke 14.1, 7-14Rev. Josh Evans “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” It’s so simple, so proverb-like, so beautiful of a sentiment. Words to live by. It’s no secret that I like things in order. In my office, books are sorted by category …
St. Philip Lutheran Church11 October 2020 + Lectionary 28AMatthew 22.1-14Rev. Josh Evans, preaching During sophomore year at Lutheran High School North, part of our curriculum included a New Testament class. When it came to parables, we would be taught how to “interpret” them - which meant, more or less, assigning real-life roles to the various …
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Pastor Josh Evans 