Sermon: Friday, March 25, 2016: Good Friday
He had called this man so many names: Rabbi, Messiah, Christ, The Holy One of God. There was more to Jesus than Peter could ever name, and now this man that he devoted his life to was marching toward certain death. So, he stayed there at the gate and waited and watched.
Sermon: Thursday, March 24, 2016: Maundy Thursday
Jesus is simply waiting for us in love to stop claiming “You will never wash my feet” and to simply start paying attention to this mutual love and service – these means of grace we've been offered – this new commandment to love.
"We Are Witnesses to These Things..." -- Testimonies for the Season of Easter
We hesitate to believe that our stories have that kind of power, even though many of us have already experienced the power of a true story told well to alter the course of our lives.
Sermon: Sunday, March 20, 2016: 5th Annual LSEA #OccupyPalmSunday
On Sunday, March 20, 2016 members of Kimball Avenue Church, Nuestra Señora de las Americas, and St. Luke's Lutheran Church of Logan Square met for worship at Diversey River Bowl before a joint procession with palms to the Rally for Public Housing at Lathrop Homes.
The Three Days: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil
The story of these three days is our story. Reborn in the waters of baptism, we are sent into the world for lives of costly service, but we are not sent alone. So we gather on these nights with those who are preparing to receive the gift of baptism to remember a supper spent with friends, testimony offered the face of empire, and the God of salvation whose story is as old as creation.