Pr. Cheryl Walenta Gorvie Sermon - blog

Can you tell that the end is near?  The end of the government shutdown—good, that’s a start.  The end of the calendar year in about 7 more weeks.    I wish we could say we’ve seen the end of people living irresponsibly, as we heard about in the second letter to the Thessalonians, along with the command “anyone unwilling to work should not eat.”  So here’s your public service announcement for today: Biblical warnings about idleness—unwilling to work—were about the RICH, not th

Have you heard of death doulas?  You may have heard of doulas—it’s the Greek word for slave or servant—though in our culture we use the term doula to refer to people accompanying a birth of a child.  A doula helps as an advocate for the mother-to-be, to assist her through the process of labor and the first stages of parenthood.  As a doula accompanies a birth, a death doula accompanies a person who is dying, assisting them through the end stages of their life.    I saw a quot

There’s a beautiful quote by Martin Luther:  “This life therefore is not righteousness but growth in righteousness, not health but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise.  We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road.  All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.”    This quote is not, by the way, found in the 95 Theses.  I thought this

Sometimes I just want Jesus to be nice, you know?  Jesus gives us difficult assignments, like he told these disciples in the verses just...

Jesus said, You cannot serve God and wealth, and then he told this parable about a rich man and Lazarus.  It is meant to be extreme—an...

Having a balance scale up here is a good visual for these Scripture readings today—what does it mean to have a world in balance?  Of...

Image from "Boundless" summer 2025 newsletter. It is easy these days to find the bad news.  In a world affected by climate change, war,...

When Jesus says “None of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions,” I used to think that meant I needed to...

Everyone be seated, and grown-ups, you are invited to turn on your listening ears because you get to go first today.  Usually we have the...