RoboPreacher

but how you going to lift it with your arms folded tight? advent is over We’re in the Christmas season. In the church-year that means we’ve moved from expectant waiting to living with the promise. Now, in this fabricated church-year, we live with that hope for which we’ve been waiting. Now, that hope is in our arms, wrapped in swaddling clothes, ready to change everything. Change everything... Maybe you haven’t noticed, but little has changed from 12/24 to 12/28. maybe nothing has The world doesn’t seem to be bursting with hope. If anything we’re just as, if not more, cynical, pessimistic… What does that mean? One could infer it means that Christianity is a farce. And maybe it is. What does it mean if all this is simply motions we go through, some sort of opiate to cope, some opiate to ease the pain of capitulation? What would that mean? These are questions Christians must consider... Personally, I think intentionally malevolent people have expl...

they are free. White people smell like dogs when they're wet... I was biking to class, and it started to rain. Cold rain. The first cold rain of the season. It sucked. It sucked because I had to go to class, and I was going to have to sit in class wet. And, as Elliot says in an episode of Scrubs, “White people smell like dogs when they’re wet.” I was going to have to sit in class wet & cold, smelling like a dog… But what made that bike ride especially terrible was I had just had an awesome talk with Joe. That was the conversation when Joe and I started to talk about working on this Advent project. So, I had been talking with him about all these exciting ideas; and, like I said earlier, it started to rain. Biking to class, getting soaked, I thought about that conversation. I thought about how spoiled I was that some rain was going to sour my day. And then I heard metal on metal; and a whizzing sound… Great. My pedals lost their tension. My bike sh...

i wanna change, too. Matthew 16:21-28 : Prayer: Lord, may the words of my lips and the meditations of all our hearts humbly follow you. Amen Greetings sisters and brothers. It is truly my honor to be back here with you all today. You have supported me, and I have prayed for you often. We have always been bound by something very deep and personal. For those of you I may not have had the pleasure of meeting, my name is Ryan Cosgrove and I am a member of Luther Memorial . I am a student studying to be a pastor, and this fall will begin my last year of seminary. I will be studying in Washington D.C., and I just completed a year-long internship at a Danish Lutheran congregation in Seattle, Washington. As I’ve gone through this process of working to become a pastor you all have supported me greatly. That support has sustained me, because as fun as this process of becoming a pastor can be, it is also challenging. In fact, I remember one time when I found myself deeply reco...