by Andreas Wagner | Nov 23, 2018 | Sermons
A lot of people will gather at the Thanksgiving table this week. They will devour insane amounts of food. They will cook more turkeys than the wild can supply. They will chop veggies, wash cranberries and re-use old family recipes. It is also rumored that the liquor...
by Andreas Wagner | Nov 23, 2018 | Sermons
Yesterday a week ago someone died almost seven thousand miles away – and it matters to us today. This murder occurred in the shadow of the shooting in Pittsburgh – a landmark crime, which resonated with people all across our country and encouraged solidarity...
by Andreas Wagner | Nov 5, 2018 | Sermons
It took me a while to realize the full importance given to the hallowed Day of Halloween in this country. See, where I grew up it wasn’t observed or celebrated at all, not in my day. I spent my entire childhood without ever going trick-or-treating in the neighborhood,...
by Andreas Wagner | Nov 5, 2018 | Sermons
I’m always a bit cautious with the big words that we so often use in church – I mean words like grace, salvation, hope, love, redemption, transformation… They are the big guns of theology, and I usually try to avoid them. Big concepts are much better understood in the...