by Andreas Wagner | Oct 30, 2016 | Sermons
On this Reformation Sunday, I am drawn to a place where I previously served. Tabor Lutheran in Philadelphia has a set of beautiful, heavy wooden doors that are supposedly exact replicas of the church doors in Wittenberg, Germany. Wittenberg is the historic place...
by Andreas Wagner | Oct 23, 2016 | Sermons
I am listening again and again to this parable of the Pharisee and the sinner and I don’t know… I am still looking for someone here. I am looking for a third person in that temple, one that is neither over the top self-righteous nor beating him or herself up in...
by Andreas Wagner | Oct 23, 2016 | Sermons
I am listening again and again to this parable of the Pharisee and the sinner and I don’t know… I am still looking for someone here. I am looking for a third person in that temple, one that is neither over the top self-righteous nor beating him or herself up in...
by Andreas Wagner | Oct 16, 2016 | Sermons
When you care about something or somebody and it isn’t going well, it’s easy to become disheartened. When you have been mistreated and you’re looking for some semblance of justice and you don’t seem to get it, it’s easy to become disheartened. When you are trapped at...
by Andreas Wagner | Oct 9, 2016 | Sermons
Is today’s gospel lesson about gratitude or ingratitude? While this question remains in the eye of the beholder, I would suggest that it is about both – the incredible capacity of human beings to forget their benefactors by taking things for granted – and...