St. Philip Lutheran Church18 December 2022 + Advent 4aMatthew 1.18-25Rev. Josh Evans The new chapel was magnificent and nearly perfect in every way … except for one tiny problem: There was no way to access the choir loft. In 1850, when the Catholic bishop of the territory of New Mexico issued a plea for a …
St. Philip Lutheran Church20 February 2022 + Lect. 7c (Epiphany 7)Genesis 45.3-11, 15Rev. Josh Evans It’s one heck of a story. Enough, in fact, to occupy the last fourteen chapters of Genesis. That’s 28% – over a quarter – of the first book of the Bible. Not many biblical stories can also claim a Tony-nominated …
St. Philip Lutheran Church24 December 2021 + Nativity of Our LordLuke 2.1-20; Titus 2.11Rev. Josh Evans I wonder how she felt when she of all people was chosen to be the first to receive the “good news of great joy.” Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber gives us some insight: “We have no idea what Mary was …
Continue reading When the Soul Felt Its Worth + A Sermon for Christmas Eve 2021
Unity Lutheran Church + Christ the King Campus22 December 2019 + Advent 4AMatthew 1.18-25; Isaiah 7.10-16Rev. Josh Evans, preaching On the First Sunday of Advent, we found ourselves at the end...literally. Remember that stuff about the unknown day and hour and one being taken and one being left? Then, the next week, we met the …
Lord of Love Lutheran Church 18 December 2016 + Fourth Sunday of Advent Isaiah 7.10-16; Matthew 1.18-25 Our first gospel text of Advent brought us a cheery end-of-the-world wake-up call, filled with images of rapture and thieves and catastrophic floods. Then we met the homely locust-eating, camel hair-wearing, name-calling John the Baptist and his brash …
Continue reading A Sermon about How Immanuel Has Nothing (and everything) to Do with Jesus
Pastor Josh Evans 