Pr. Cheryl Walenta Gorvie Sermon - blog

Just don’t imagine that your lack of understanding is a liability in the presence of God. God knows we’re not perfect and loves us anyway.

The Ten Commandments seem pretty straightforward, right? Over the past several weeks, as we’ve been progressing through reading the...

...But can we learn something about God’s love from the visible excitement of a dog who welcomes you home with jumping and barking ...

The trouble with some parables is not that you cannot understand them, and today Jesus tells one such parable.

Liberation can be messy and painful work. Just like water can be life-giving and dangerous.

In these weeks of September, this season of creation, we’re looking at Scripture through the lens of what God has created.

One of my favorite all-camp games during my childhood years at church camp was called Romans and Christians. The campers were the...

Who speaks for you? Who do you trust enough that you would align yourself with someone else’s ideas? It’s complicated, right?

In the storms of life, which keep happening, God keeps showing up.

Listen carefully: the miracle is not the feeding of the five thousand men, besides women and children. This miracle is important enough...

Have you understood all this? Jesus asks his disciples. “Yes,” they say. Were the disciples lying to Jesus? “Yes, we understand all...

Shine light, be who you are, and let the good grow. God is paying attention.

God’s not out there making tally marks of good deeds but delighting in relationship with you, and all the rest of the family.

After graduating college, I lived in Tokyo for a couple of years as a missionary with the ELCA. I got to live in a huge, exciting city,...

St. Louis is a wonderful place for watching birds: songbirds and migratory birds, sure, and with all the rivers around, there are also...

Shake the dust from your feet. Easier said than done. I confess, sometimes it takes me a while to shake the dust from my feet, to let...

When Jesus says “Follow me,” it is not just a simple matter of obedience to do stuff the right way.

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. And “no one comes to the Father—meaning ‘God’—except through me.” How many times have you...

When do you hear the voice of someone you trust? What does their voice sound like in your mind or in your memory? How did you come to...

The kids on the Green Team (and their mentor, Eve Cooney) take over the sermon to discuss the ways they are trying to be better stewards...