by markfeldmeir | Jun 27, 2022 | Christian Ehics, Uncategorized
Throughout my 30 years in ministry, I’ve sat with women and their families as they faced difficult decisions about their pregnancies. I’ve been invited into tender conversations about trauma, abuse, assault, the health of the mother, viability, quality of...
by markfeldmeir | May 10, 2022 | Faith, Jesus, Social Issues, Trends, Uncategorized
Home sweet home. Have you ever uttered that phrase at some point in your life? You walk through the door after a long vacation or road trip—exhausted, relieved, thankful to have finally arrived—and you say, “Home sweet home.” You’ve been away at college, and after a...
by markfeldmeir | Apr 28, 2022 | Christian Ehics, Jesus, sermon, Trends, Uncategorized
If you knew everything about the future, what would you do differently today? It’s a question futurist, Faith Popcorn, has been asking for decades. Popcorn is an expert in cultural and consumer trends—the “Nostradamus of Marketing.” As a...
by markfeldmeir | Nov 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
In Matthew 25, Jesus tells a story. Your boss, he says, is heading up to Breckenridge for an extended vacation. She plans to be gone for a long time, giving you no idea of when she’ll return. She’s very wealthy, by the way. Business has been very good, profits are...
by markfeldmeir | May 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
With Memorial Day just a few days away, I’ve been reflecting on a conversation I had with a now-deceased parishioner who, along with more than 150,000 other soldiers, had stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. While he lived to tell about it, he often...
by markfeldmeir | Mar 22, 2020 | Faith, Lent, sermon, The Church, Uncategorized
“The Darkness Is Inevitable” Psalm 23 Last summer, when I planned our “Simply Put” sermon series, I had in my mind the image of a wise, venerable sage, in the sunset of his or her life, sitting at a desk with pen and paper in a quiet, lamp-lit study, transcribing for...
