Legacy Sunday: Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost 9/26/21

Help us Lord to be masters of ourselves, that we may joyfully and consciously respond to and participate in your creation. Take our minds and think through them, our lips and speak through them, and take our hearts and set them on fire. My name is Tom Gossen and I...

Asking God for Wisdom: Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost 9/19/21

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of all our hearts be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord our Strength and Our Redeemer. Amen. In today’s scripture readings, wisdom and a life of service become two threads or themes that come through clearly. So, I will focus...

What Does It Mean?: Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost 9/12/21

One of the things which makes me feel old – and if not really old, then certainly not young – is talking to people, usually younger, who have a vocabulary full of pop culture allusions. For example, just recently Curate Dillon was in my office and we were talking...