St. John’s Lutheran Church16 April 2023 + Easter 2aJohn 20.19-31Rev. Josh Evans Unbelievable. A word which, by definition, implies something too improbable to be believed, something extraordinary, outside the bounds of what we expect to be true. It can be exclaimed in complete and utter amazement after witnessing something truly spectacular … Unbelievable! Or in …
St. Philip Lutheran Church4 December 2022 + Advent 2aMatt. 3.1-12; Isa. 11.1-10Rev. Josh Evans In the midst of all the holiday preparations this time of year, it’s not difficult to get lost in all the things to be done. So, to make at least one thing easier to prepare, might I suggest for your holiday …
St. Philip Lutheran Church22 May 2022 + Sixth Sunday of EasterRevelation 21.10, 22–22.5; John 14.23-29Rev. Josh Evans Jesus’s words feel like a hopeful and welcome promise … and, at the same time, such a far off dream and unattainable vision for our time: As our country (yet again) grapples with the grief and terror of …
Cleveland Clinic / Louis Stokes VA Medical Center 21 June 2015 / 24 June 2015 Pentecost 4B Mark 4.35-41; Job 38.1-11; Psalm 107.1-3, 23-32 “It was a dark and stormy night.” So begins the novel Paul Clifford by nineteenth-century English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It’s perhaps the most well-known first line of any novel and has …
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Pastor Josh Evans 