St. Philip Lutheran Church7 August 2022 + Lect. 19c (Pentecost 9)Isaiah 1.1, 10-20; Luke 12.32-40Rev. Josh Evans Some YouTube videos just speak to you, you know? One of my favorites – aptly titled “[Stuff] Pastors Say (When Writing Sermons)” – hits particularly close to home. As the video opens to the preacher sitting in front …
I wrote this liturgy for the congregation I serve, St. Philip Lutheran Church in Glenview, Illinois, for Pride Sunday 2022. I offer it here for use by anyone who finds it helpful or enriching for their own community's worship. The base liturgy is drawn from the Affirmation of Baptism rite found in Evangelical Lutheran Worship, …
This liturgy, as used at Unity Lutheran Church, Brookfield, WI, on Sunday, December 8, 2019, is a patchwork of a variety of sources: The printed introduction, opening dialogue, and prayer after communion are drawn from Sundays and Seasons and Evangelical Lutheran Worship. The thanksgiving at the table and invitation to communion were written specifically for …
As mentioned in my previous post, this year my internship congregation did a special liturgy for Christ the King Sunday, in which we traced the liturgical year, season by season, in a pattern of reading-reflection-hymn. What follows is my short reflection on the gospel pericope for Christ the King, Luke 23.33-43. I am also including …
This year, my internship congregation is doing a special liturgy for Christ the King Sunday. In the "Word" portion of the traditional four-fold ordo, we are tracing the liturgical year from Advent to its culmination in Christ the King, the church's "New Year's Eve" if you will, in a pattern of reading-reflection-hymn. The following Eucharistic …
This weekend, I had the opportunity to join in an interfaith prayer vigil with the advocacy group Insure the Good Life, a project of Nebraska Appleseed that aims to urge state legislators to close the Medicaid gap - a gap that currently leaves tens of thousands of hard-working Nebraskans uninsured and without access to quality …
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Pastor Josh Evans 