Sermons by Rev. Jason S. Glombicki

As we move through the Easter season, we’re invited into explore new life and resurrection in the texts. So too, as we continue the “A Place” sermon series that reflects our A Place for All campaign, we’re looking at these readings with a lens toward how we are called to create “a place” to best live out God’s vision. Holding all of that, three central verbs struck me in today’s reading. They are meet, teach, and send…

Today’s gospel reading jumped the gun in terms of the chronology leading up to Holy Week. You see, next week we’ll gather outside to process with palms as we recall Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem before his betrayal, sham trial, and execution. But today’s reading falls after Jesus’ triumphal entry and before his betrayal. Today we focus on Jesus’ final public discourse. The content of this discourse (and arguably the entire gospel of John) is summarized by a short, one sentence metaphor. Jesus said, “Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit…

Wicker Park Lutheran Church Rev. Jason S. Glombicki January 7, 2024 On this last Sunday of the Christmas season, I’m thinking back to Christmas Eve. On that night, we first gathered for a children’s service and told Luke’s Christmas story. Every year as we share that story, a child will want to put the shepherds and the magi together at Jesus’ birth. And I understand why. After all, many of our devotional manger scenes do show everyone there all at…