Sermons From Upper Dublin Lutheran Church

Pastor Keith preaches on the layers of meaning in Jesus' healing stories and how often healing comes about by crossing a boundary.

Pastor Keith reflects on the beheading of John the Baptist as a lens through which to look at recent news of family separation at the border.

Inspired by Neil DeGrasse Tyson's book, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Pastor Keith reflects on how dark matter makes up most of the universe and how in our faith "because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal." (2 Corinthians 4:18). We can't touch, taste, or see love, hope, grace, mercy, and forgiveness. Like dark matter, we can only see its effects.

On Confirmation Sunday Pastor Lawlor stresses the need for our culture (especially teenagers)to truly honor Sabbath time for more than an hour on Sunday morning! Turn off cell phones, talk face to face, read, celebrate nature but also listen for God’s voice to call us into His world refreshed to heal the brokenness in countless realms!!

Pastor Lawlor enthusiastically recounts the power and calling to us all of Pentecost !!

Field education student Courtney Smith explores this text of Jesus appearing to the disciples where they think they are seeing a ghost. While celebrating Volunteer Sunday we are reminded that Jesus calls us to bear witness to the resurrection through our actions to serve and love others.

Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived!

When Jesus rose from the tomb on Easter morning he overturned the fake news of the world and replaced it with the Good News. Pastor Keith reflects on the hope of Easter.

On this fifth Sunday of Lent we are presented with a text challenging us to live in community, to lay down our independent lives, and follow Jesus. Through today's struggles with hurt and oppression in the world, we are challenged every day to turn to each other for support and growth. Looking through the story of the grain of wheat and using The Circle of Life, we can all find comfort from one another on our journey to the cross. Field education student Courtney Smith preaches.

Pastor Lawlor discusses how difficult it is for some of us to 'take advice" fromothers about our spiritual growth. Interesting bible stories are aligned today fromOT Moses and poisonous snakes...and NT...God so loved the world"....showing ourstubborness. This Lent we are challenged to "be the change we want others to feel"when they embrace Christ's gracious love..

Instead of "giving up" things for Lent, how about we think of it as "letting go"? Pastor Keith reflects on what he learned from the practice of minimalism, what Jesus was up to flipping over tables in the Temple, and how the Church is in the midst of its own epic rummage sale. With inspiration from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Phyllis Tickle, and The New Copernicans.