Sunday, August 6, 2023

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Rev. Brent Gundlah Getting people with different perspectives to come together and agree on anything has never been an easy thing to do. This seems especially true these days, when every single issue that comes up results in us running to...

Sunday, July 23, 2023

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost “Sowing Weeds” Rev. Brent Gundlah Well, it’s another day down on the farm with Jesus as our reading from Matthew again uses agricultural imagery to explain what God’s reign is like. In today’s parable, Jesus turns his...

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Seveth Sunday after Pentecost “Sowing Seeds” — Rev. Brent Gundlah Once upon a time, I lived and served a church in a rural community in America’s “Heartland” — a place where agriculture anchors the local economy and where people work hard to raise all sorts of things....

Sunday, July 9, 2023

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost”Burdens”Rev. Brent Gundlah When I was in seventh grade, my parents adopted two brown and white baby goats named Annabelle and Phoebe. It seemed like a good idea at the time; we had a barn in the back of our property that...

Sunday, July 2, 2023

Fifth Sunday After Pentecost Rev. Brent Gundlah Many years ago, shortly after Valerie and I moved to New York, we were invited to my parents’ house for Thanksgiving dinner. This would be the first time she’d be spending a major holiday with my family, which was...

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Fourth Sunday after PentecostHope Springs Eternal Rev. Brent Gundlah In baseball, a player’s “batting average” is calculated by taking the number of hits a player has and dividing it by the number of that player’s at-bats. The result is reported out to three decimal...