Image

Faith Lutheran Church

ELCA – Santa Rosa, CA
  • Home
  • About
    • Our Ministries
    • Our Church History
    • Photo Gallery
  • Service Times
  • Our Ministries
  • Pastor’s Blog
  • Faith Lutheran Preschool
  • Calendar
  • LINK newsletter
  • Contact
  • Our beautiful campus!
  • Vacation Bible School and Camp Big Oak

Archive for Pastor Tims Blog

May 1, 2016 Easter 6 – Where the heck is Macedonia?

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 October 25, 2016

Macedonia is in the middle of nowhere. You could make that kind of statement if you lived in America, and you do. Macedonia is a little North of modern Greece, a little East. It is between Greece, which you most certainly have heard of, and Kosovo and Serbia, which you have also, regrettably, heard of; […]


Tags : dreams, fear-based economy, hearing voices, Macedonia, road to Damascus, trust, unreasonable standards, visions

April 17, 2016 Easter 4 – Zombie Apocalypse (revelation)

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 October 25, 2016

I have never watched the Walking Dead. I am completely without knowledge of this apparently seminal moment in American Culture and I have exactly zero interest in correcting this horrible and probably fatal condition. Of course, since I’ve never seen the show, I do not know if I will rise again to preach in some […]


Tags : alive, antonym, tabitha, walking dead, walking living, zombie, zombieland

April 10, 2016 Easter 3 – Barnett Wedding – What were you expecting?

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 October 25, 2016

Sometimes it just hits you, you know? Sometimes fate, or luck, or God or whatever it is that moves you when you are doing something else comes along and grabs you from the safety of your world and uncovers a path going off in a strange direction, a darker, thornier path as often as not, […]


Tags : abundance, congress, Drought, famine, fate, homelessness, hubris, Khrushchev, marriage, Saul of Tarsus, Surprise, unknown, wedding

April 3, 2016 Easter 2 – One more second of Grace

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 September 14, 2016

The disciples are not named in this morning’s first reading, Acts 5:27-32. Peter is the main character in this chapter and so we can assume the he is among the ones brought in front of the authorities but we do not have that specifically, it is not a point being made. It could even be […]


Tags : courage, Peter, risk, sacrifice, unanticipated outcomes, unintended consequences

March 27, 2016 Easter Sunday – No Simple Victory

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 September 14, 2016

I’ve never gotten the impression that Easter is the great victory people seem to want it to be, the downfall of death and the devil, the whole putting your enemies under your feet thing, the martial language, it is all a very celebratory thing and I guess I just don’t celebrate victory that way, I […]


Tags : death, distraction, fandom, Oingo Boingo, Osama Bin Laden, This is the feast, tomb, victory

March 25, 2016 Good Friday – A man walks into a bar, er, I mean he walks into a church

Posted by Anna Rybat on
 September 14, 2016

A stranger walked into church one day, a Sunday naturally. He was carrying a Bible which should be a good sign but in the modern era, it’s sort of a danger sign, I mean, how many of you carry a Bible to church. We’ll get to asking why we don’t later on. He had that […]


Tags : abundant life, confession, joy, kingdom of God, ministry, truth, who are you looking for?
Next Page »

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Faith Lutheran Church
Copyright © 2021 All Rights Reserved
facebook