sermons, theological musings, and other ramblings of a queer lutheran pastor in brew city
Unity Lutheran Church + Cross of Life Campus7 April 2019 + Fifth Sunday in LentJohn 12.1-8Rev. Josh Evans, preaching (audio coming soon) This is a tale of two women. First: She’s at this big party, a wedding feast to be exact. Everything’s going great, and everyone’s having a great time… until: They run out of …
Unity Lutheran Church + Christ the King Campus24 March 2019 + Third Sunday in LentIsaiah 55.1-9Rev. Josh Evans, preaching So there we were: hiking through the Badlands National Park in South Dakota. This was one of many summer vacation trips my dad and I took when I was growing up. One year took us all …
Unity Lutheran Church + Christ the King Campus17 March 2019 + Second Sunday in LentLuke 13.31-35; Genesis 15.1-12, 17-18Rev. Josh Evans, preaching We trust in many things: Just this morning, all of us trusted in our cars — and the driving of those around us — to get us safely to church.I’m 100% not a …
Unity Lutheran Church13 March 2019 + Midweek Lent 1Ezekiel 36.24-28Rev. Josh Evans, preaching There is nothing quite so satisfying as that unusual but strangely familiar sensation of stepping outside, bundled up in your winter jacket, hat, and gloves… only to realize, all of a sudden: Huh, it’s actually not that cold today. I had that …
Unity Lutheran Church + Christ the King Campus6 March 2019 + Ash WednesdayJoel 2.1-2, 12-17; Matthew 6.1-6, 16-21Rev. Josh Evans, preaching I’ve long thought of Ash Wednesday as a “reset” button of sorts. Which is really just a new way of saying what this day has always been about. From the earliest days of this …
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 …
Lutheran Church of the Cross, Arlington Heights 29 July 2018 + Lectionary 17B (Pentecost 10) John 6.1-21 Last week, I preached a sermon about rest. In the midst of so much busyness and hurry and important but exhausting work, Jesus bids his disciples to come away and rest… And in the midst of our own …
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