Dear friend, I couldn’t help but chuckle. I was caring for a little one this week who, like so many others, couldn’t go to school due to sickness. I took her with me to the church office, set up a napping station and an iPad, and turned my attention to the long queue of emails awaiting my attention. When I looked up, there she was: Yes, that’s the work of Max Weber she decided to pluck […]

December 31 (1 Sermon) They call the time between the “meantime” because sometimes it can be really mean.

Beginning in January 2018, Callie Olson will join the South Elkhorn team as Student Minister. She is a native Wisconsinite, a former college basketball player, a student at Asbury Theological Seminary, and Callie shares a bit more about herself below: What impact did going to church as a child have on you? I grew up in a large United Methodist Church in Madison, Wisconsin. Going to church as a child had a significant impact on […]

Below are some efforts to capture the creative, ordinary, and yet subtly subversive and shocking imagery of Jesus’ parables: “The kingdom of heaven is like one grape moldering in the bag brought from the supermarket. Left in the light the mold grows and the next day every grape in the bag is moldy.” “The kingdom of heaven is like a slot machine. Many come and gamble their money and leave with nothing. Then comes a […]

July 16-30, 2017 (3 sermons). Jesus was a master of metaphor. He used ordinary experiences of everyday life to vivify the gospel…