Yesterday was a good day at church to celebrate the baptism of Jesus. My youth sermon focused on God's message of being well-pleased with Jesus, even before he's done anything, which is so different from much of our experience in the world. I put this idea in the context of going back to school. It is likely the same youth sermon I preached last year, and it's a theme I return to periodically. I am not worried about the repetition. I want the youth to remember.
My adult sermon went in interesting directions. I had the idea of ending with the monks walking for peace yesterday morning, the morning of the Sunday I was to preach the sermon. That's not unusual for me; I often create the last paragraph the morning of the sermon. But yesterday, it was a whole new page. I was happy with it. I referenced the picture below in the sermon, a picture posted by Sandra Cline, which she titled "Buddhist Monks with a Lutheran Monk." It's a picture of the monks walking across the now-closed campus of LTSS, more commonly known as Southern Seminary:
The recording of my sermon is here, on my YouTube page. The manuscript is in this post on my theology page.
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