Tag: Religion
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Misericordias Domini (2nd Sunday After Easter) ~ 14th April 2024
The following sermon was not an easy one for me to write, and I’m still not sure how much I like it or how happy I am with it. But I got a fair bit of positive feedback from women from both congregations where I preached this past Sunday. One thing in particular stuck with…
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Sermon – Last Sunday After Epiphany 2024
I don’t know about you, but these days I feel as if there is a heaviness weighing on everything and everyone. Two young people violently lost their lives these past few days. The press conference about the “ForuM-Studie” on Thursday. The neverending images of war, violence, and death in Gaza, the Ukraine, the Sudan, and…
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Predigt – Letzter Sonntag nach Epiphanias 2024
Ich weiß nicht, wie es Ihnen und euch geht, aber ich habe dieser Tage das Gefühle, dass eine große Schwere auf allem und auf uns allen lastet. Zwei junge Menschen haben in den vergangenen Tagen gewaltsam ihr Leben verloren. Die Pressekonferenz zur ForuM-Studie am Donnerstag. Die endlosen Bilder von Krieg, Gewalt und Tod aus Gaza,…
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When Hope Seems Lost…
It’s Friday night and I am sitting here on my couch in the comfort and safety of my four walls. It feels like the weight of the world is resting in my shoulders. 2024 is barely a month old. Yet so much has already happened. More than I can keep track of. The war in…
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Good Friday Sermon
Yesterday everything had seemed fine. We were sitting around a table with Jesus and shared a meal. We were happy and I was convinced that everything would remain like this forever. But suddenly Jesus started to talk about his own death again. I didn’t want to hear that. I didn’t want to think about what…
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Karfreitagspredigt
Gestern noch schien alles in Ordnung zu sein. Wir haben mit Jesus zu Tisch gelegen und zusammen gegessen und getrunken. Die Stimmung war gut und ich war überzeugt es würde immer so weitergehen. Doch auf einmal fing Jesus wieder davon an von seinem eigenen Tod zu sprechen. Ich wollte das nicht hören. Ich wollte nicht…
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Knowing Better Doesn’t Always Mean Doing Better
Last week a woman from my congregation whom I had visited for her 80th birthday invited me to the Sunday service she always attends. She had talked about how lively those services always are and how international the congregation is. I’m always curious to attend different services, and I’m a massive people-pleaser, so I said…
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When Trauma Memories Hit You Out Of The Blue
On my way home from work today a trauma memory resurfaced when I drove past an accident on the highway. Police and fire brigade were already there and either an ambulance hadn’t been needed (what I doubt) or it had already left. So I didn’t stop, but slowly passed in the lane furthest from the…
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Good Friday – Karfreitag
The English name for this days focuses on the hope and the good that came from the darkness. The German name is very different. As so many words in my native language this noun is made of two nouns (fun side note: in German you can add an indefinite number of nouns together to create…