God’s Presence Changes Everything Still Today
God’s presence is available and with us today, comforting us, teaching us, reminding us, shaping us, to make this all more like the Kingdom of God.
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Nancy's Love in this Life and the Next
Perfect submission, all is at rest; I in my Savior am happy and blest, watching and waiting, looking above, filled with his mercy, lost in his love.
The Daily Journey of World-Changing Love
We may not always love particularly well, but when we keep love as our guide, we trust that in so doing we are being formed by it all along the way.
Making Jesus Real for our World
Jesus commands us to love one another here in the church because it is our example that makes Christ real for the world to see.
God Calls the Least Likely (Us) to Love
He met Paul and Peter where they were, and he invited them to the way of love, both to be loved and to love others. He calls us just the same.
A Community that Proves the Resurrection
We do our best to live the gospel, and that is how we share the truth of the resurrection with others, not with what we say but with who we are.
The Ending of this Comedy: Love Wins
Love wins. The ending is a good one: death and sin have been defeated once and for all. So choose love. It is more than enough.
These Are Rituals That Shape Us
Every time we pray the Eucharistic Prayer and partake in Holy Communion, we remember this night, and we remember the charge Jesus gave his disciples before his death, the charge to love one another.
In Which Parade Are We Marching?
It is so easy for all of us to both sing “glory to our Redeemer King” and then fully reject his kingship, his way of love, when it comes to the other.
Choosing True Joy by Choosing Sacrifice
We know that a life of sacrifice to God and others is where true joy is to be found, where laying down our own lives is the greatest love.
Joan, Bob, and All the Company of Heaven
May we take comfort today in knowing that Angels, Archangels, Bob, and now Joan are forever singing hymns together to proclaim the glory of God’s name.
A God Who Refuses to Keep Score
Keeping score works if you need winners and losers, if you have a championship to fight for, but it has no place in God’s kingdom.
Sports
A Lifelong Tour of the American Pastime
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby, Cardinals 2B
Epiphany
Pour Some Manure on Me, Church
We do this repentance thing together, you see, shovels in hand and manure nearby, tending to each other as best we can, and always with God’s grace and patience and help.
Prayer
A Prayer for City Council: March 17, 2025
Guide us tonight toward making South Haven a better place for all people. Guide us toward love.
Epiphany
A Faithful God, Empowering Us to Love
We are tasked today simply with radiating the glory and love of God through our own lives, and if we do that together, with God’s help, then we can trust that the entire world will be changed.
Epiphany
The Cure for our Infected Hearts
Love is for all, without reserve or measure, and we are invited to that kind of love for their sake, for our own sake, and for our world's.
Epiphany
The Mysterium Tremendum by the Lake
Simon and the future disciples made space for something good for their souls in a world of failure and disappointment, and there, they met God.
Epiphany
Peace, Joy, and Love in a Broken World
God is still at work amid the pain, amid the cruelty. And, we are invited as Christians to join in God’s redeeming work in the world, working toward a society where all are honored and respected and loved.
Sermons
Bishop Marianne Budde's Sermon on Unity
With a commitment to unity, and the solid foundations of dignity, honesty, and humility that such unity requires, we can do our part to help realize the ideals and the dream of America.
Prayer
The Romero Prayer
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
Epiphany
An Epiphany that Parties in the Dark
God wants our communities of faith to be parties so compelling that no one can see us and deny the truth of love, the goodness of this life.
Epiphany
An Epiphany that Reveals the New Creation
We believe that God reveals that Jesus Christ is the beloved, the sign of a new way of being in the world. What will that mean for us?
Epiphany
An Epiphany that Shines Brightly for All
Epiphany gives us a chance to live our lives in response to this revelation, this manifestation, this glory of God made flesh.