Salt House - Sermons

We can't deny white supremacy anymore. We've seen and heard too much. Pastor Ryan's friend and colleague, U.S. history teacher Ryan Crane weaves personal story and a practical approach to becoming a witness, because we are made in the image of a witnessing God. Join us as we bear witness to the suffering of others.

One of the greatest intimacies we can share with another is the be present with them in their pain. What does it look to do this, to witness to someone, affirming their pain as real and the presence of God with them as real, too? Join us Sunday as Pastor Sara leads us, looking to scripture, science, and our lived experience to shape how we witness to the suffering of others.

This Sunday marks one-year since we began online worship and life together at a distance due to covid. ONE YEAR. We'll mark this anniversary with stories from our community, special music, and guest preacher, Professor Kaethe Schwehn, who teaches creative writing at St Olaf College. Grab paper and a pen as she leads us into an experience of writing our own suffering, especially of this past year. It may not be our first choice for how to spend a Sunday morning! Yet this is one of the ways we witness to our own story and let the wilderness of the past year teach us.

Most of us don't know our own story. Of course, we can remember the events of our lives…went to school, lived here, worked there… but that’s not the story. God is inviting you to become a witness to your life, in order that you might co-author and discover the Good Story in your story.

Movement One: Write about a time when you experienced "shalom"

Movement Two: Write about a time when you experienced "shattering" of shalom

Movement Three: Write about a time when you experienced the "search" for shalom

Movement Four: Write about a time when you experience the "surprise" of a new shalom

Lent is here! The 40 days leading us from Ash Wednesday to the cross of death and resurrection on the other side. Join us Sunday as Pastor Sara kicks off our 6-week Lenten sermon series, revealing our wilderness journey for this Lent 2021.

we're finishing our Epiphany Series with the topic of SIN...this should be interesting!

Come to find out, the Bible has a rich way of talking about sin that is less about moral perfection, and more about love and relationship. Maybe it has something to do with Valentine's Day after all?

Our season of Epiphany (and of our own epiphanies) takes us into a conversation about the Bible. No single belief influences our lives more - and creates connection or division with others - than how we read the Bible. See you in worship Sunday, as Pastor Sara tackles the question of how to read the Bible, by reorienting us around the complicated question: Is the Bible is the inerrant, authoritative Word of God?

Evangelical. What thoughts and feelings arise as you read this word? Is it good? Is it good-news? Words are fluid. Words change, are abandoned, or reclaimed. What do we do with a word like Evangelical? In this week's sermon we look to a Gender-Minority in scripture (Acts 8) to engage this question.

What do we mean when we talk about "being saved?" Christianity has too often put energy and focus in the wrong direction when it comes to salvation - to the point of causing great harm. Join us Sunday as we reclaim the goal of Christianity as one that is wildly healing, inclusive and transformational.

Our series Are We Here Yet explores the rhythms of faith. Specifically, the deconstruction and reconstruction rhythms of our faith. Today, Pastor Ryan explores some of our shifting theological understandings of Heaven and Hell. Plus the song "Your Hands" by J.J. Heller, performed by Jason Bendickson and Alissa Brambilla.