RoboPreacher

pursued by love It’s always a privilege to spend time around college folks, like yourself. So thank you for the opportunity.   It’s such a pleasure for me because it was during college that I was converted. I grew up going to a church where using your brain was strictly frowned upon.   Not that such frowning was uncommon, though. There was a lot being frowned on, and the message I grew up getting loud and clear was that one way or another; I was going to hell.   So my first semester in college was spent rebelling from all that.   As fun as that was, it wasn’t fun for very long. Not long after I found myself lost and longing. It was my good fortune to fall in among a lutheran student ministry, like yours.   It was truly an experience of the “Freedom of the Gospel,” as we say, to be among Christians who weren’t afraid to use their brains and who talked about a God who wasn’t out to judge, but love . So I hope you will think o...

to before we changed it The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark 9 ! Well, wouldn’t you know it, I’ve got another problem on this third week of Lent…  And my problem, as I hope you’re not surprised by now, is Jesus ; Jesus and his foolishness . “Then take last place,” he dares to say! Can you believe it? Take last place?!?! I mean, what am I going to do with that up here? First of all, you’re no fools; you all know that is not the way it works.  It’s a dog-eat-dog would out there, you gotta prove yourself, you have to be ambitious ! Take last place? No, not if you’re going to make it in this life! Yet here I am, stuck with Jesus’ Word today that is just far too foolish to do anything with. This foolish Word doesn’t work as advice . I mean, what kind of advice is giving up, taking last place? Nor does this Word work as motivation. Who would be motivated to anything with encouragement like, ‘just give up?’  And finally, even our last...