On June 19, 2021, I celebrated –– albeit quietly –– my eleventh ordination anniversary. On September 18, I celebrated –– also quietly –– my tenth anniversary of serving Ascension Lutheran Church and The Church of the Holy Cross. On November 18, 2021, Joel and I will have been “together” for twenty-one years and married...
Year B Numbers 11:4-6,10-16,24-29 Psalm 19:7-14 James 5:13-20 Mark 9:38-50 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… When I was in the Air Force… I served as a medical laboratory technician… the training program for that job code was among the Air Force’s longest… three months studying chemistry… serology… bacteriology… ...
While Rev. Mike is on vacation, there will be no weekly posting of the sermons here. However, you can still “tune in” to our weekly worship service as the videos remain accessible on our Facebook page at: The sermon postings will resume Sept. 26.
Those of you who read the MailChimp email I sent on August 22nd, or who heard or read my sermon on the August 29th know that change is afoot. It began on April 15, when the Rev. Canon Val Ambrose (of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan) had a Zoom meeting with several of...
Year B Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 Psalm 15 James 1:17-27 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… There’s a passage in Deuteronomy 6:5-9… which is a fuller expression of our reading from a few minutes ago… it’s a prayer we used to recite every week at Friday...