Salt House - Sermons

Join us today for our continuing fall series - The Space Between Us: What Jesus Does with Difference - as Pastor Sara takes us into the space between us when we are grieving. Come remember your beloveds who have died as we mark All Saints Day and listen for how Jesus invites us to carry our love forward in the midst of grief.

This Sunday is Reformation Sunday when we remember the ever-reforming tradition we are a part of. Perhaps no reform is more greatly needed in the church today than the reckoning of racism in our church and ourselves, which is why this Reformation Sunday we centralize the voice of our friend and Black preacher, the Rev Dr. Stephen Newby. Join us as he speaks to what Jesus does with difference in race.

We have these bodies of ours. And when we pay attention (beyond the standards our culture prescribes) we see how there is great variety in how bodies function, and in the abilities they have. Often, these differences are minimized, hidden, devalued. Today, we examine what Jesus does in the space between our bodies, in the difference our bodies hold. Pastor Sara leads us in a conversation of Ableism and what Jesus does with difference in and between our bodies.

Last Sunday we kicked off our fall series, "The Space Between Us: What Jesus Does with Difference," our chance to name and explore the issues that divide us. Today, we welcome the Rev Dr. Megan Rohrer (they/them), the first ordained trans pastor in the Lutheran church. Rooted in their own story, they will engage us in exploring what Jesus does with difference in gender and sexuality.

Pastor Ryan Marsh launches our new series for this fall: The Space Between Us: What Jesus Does with Difference. Join us for this crucial conversation as we navigate these unprecedented times.

As summer turns to autumn, we at Salt House are embracing a new season of connection and service. Pastor Sara and Pastor Ryan invite you to consider your time, energy, and grace in the midst of this season. Love is our shelter, we're better together. Connect and serve at Salt House.

In seasons of great unknown and anxiety, research reveals how expressing our emotional world is one of the most important activities we can engage for coping and thriving. Today, we use the Psalms as our example to teach us how to do this - using Israel's blueprint as we each write our own Psalm of Disorientation. Bring your paper/journal and pen for this final Sunday in our Summer of Psalms, as we let our experience find expression in speech through the poetic form of the Psalms.

KIDS TAKE OVER! We asked our youngest Salt House family members to share their wisdom and faith with us as they reflected on Psalm 23.

This Sunday - no online worship! Instead we pause for a Sabbath Sunday for our community. which means you can make time to live into the question: how can I rest and rejuvenate in a way that will fill my bucket to overflowing? Watch this video from Pastor Sara to hear an invitation into Sabbath from Psalm 92.

Salt House's own Macy Zwanzig digs in deep to her own journey - inviting us into our own experience of emotions suppressed and expressed in our bodies, as well as in the Psalms. We call these Sundays Salt House Stories - a chance to hear a story from one of our own, and let their vulnerability and curiosity echo of the Jesus story, drawing us together.