Sermons on Spiritual Practice
Ash Wednesday
“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return!” Rev. Baumann, sermon, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Port Angeles WA. Check out our video ministry 1517 Grace Guerrilla https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv2aB-i9zHPqgh3NjUJ5-lg
Repentance – Luke 13:1-9
Repentance – Luke 13:1-9 It is Lent. It’s a time to reflect and to repent. Repentance is not a spiritual exercise to make you fell bad about yourself. But it is a time to reflect on our sinfulness while at the same time we are assured that God loves us no matter what. Repentance in the light of love and grace is about mustering the creative power of love and the will to liberate ourselves to be, as Luther puts…
Doubt is the eternal twin of faith.
Doubt is the eternal twin of faith. Many People want to have prove for the existence of God, like in a science lab where peer reviewed numbers can quantify what we know about the physical universe. This is not gonna happen. Every theologian and philosopher who set out to prove the existence of God, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the exercise is futile. Faith cannot be proven, faith can only be experienced. Faith is about living it,…
Choose Life Not Death
Engaging Spiritual Practice Moses urges his people to choose life, not death. But sometimes paths leading to life look pretty daunting, and paths leading to death look pretty inviting. So how do we make sure that we choose life? By engaging the spiritual practices of our faith tradition. Rev. Kristin Luana Baumann, sermon, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Port Angeles WA, 9/4/2016.