Sermons from June 2015

Life in the Coffeepot, Part 1

Psalm 10:1  Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? Dear Friends in Christ, I don’t know why, but over the past year or so Marilyn and I have become mesmerized by the large number of Alaska shows on satellite TV these days.  From “Alaskan Bush People”…

The A-C-T-S of Worship

This morning we come to the end of a journey, a journey that we actually began last year on June 8.  We’ve called it “Salem Lutheran Church: A Faith Odyssey.”  As I noted in my first sermon in this series, an odyssey is an extended journey.  And on this extended journey we have gone in…

People Pleasers or God Pleasers

2 Corinthians 5:1-10 Awaiting the New Body 1For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will…

Face to Face with a Holy God

Isaiah 6:1-8 Isaiah’s Commission 1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim,each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they…