This is our place of life | Thoughts on Boston

Some thoughts on Boston that eventually turned into a sermon.

Easter Evening at Grace: a report from the future

Below is an article I submitted for the Grace Lutheran Church newsletter. It describes @LCMontheHILL's Easter evening worship where one of our students was baptized. Many thanks to our friends and partners in ministry at Grace and at Canterbury Colorado for being a part of that night.

This is a story about the future. It’s a story about the common future God holds for Grace and Lutheran Campus Ministry. 

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Psalm showed up at Grace in January. Despite his serendipitous name Psalm, a 22 year old Marine ROTC senior, did not grow up in the church. With graduation and deployment growing larger on the horizon, his investigation of the faith intensified. He did his research. After clicking through a litany of church websites and pages that described “What we believe,” Psalm showed up early one morning to plumb the depths of the book of Job with the people of Grace. 

Through his connection at Grace, Psalm plugged-in with the student group at LCM. Rooted both at Grace and LCM, Psalm soon told me that he wanted to be baptized. We set that holy process into motion, preparing for baptism on Easter evening. Corey, a student who happens to be a veteran of the war in Iraq, served as Psalm’s sponsor. The three of us met every week during Lent to do bible study and wrestle with the questions that emerge along the road that leads to the font. 

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Finally, Easter arrived. In our weekly meetings Psalm decided that he wished to be fully immersed at his baptism, that the symbols of that night should proclaim the complete way in which God would claim Psalm. So, on Sunday afternoon a garden hose snaked up the stairs and into the sanctuary at Grace where it filled a horse trough.  

Thoughts on Phoenix and 'Old People'

Phoenix, old people, and the golden girls.

A Night at LCM@CU...in which I put on Pants

Just some thoughts on space rocks, putting on pants, and Jesus.
-PZ