“We’re returning from exile…” — Sermon for Sunday August 21, 2022

Some of the great privileges and also heavy burdens of the vocation of being a pastor are the many holy and sacred moments that we get to experience with people. The times when they shed their façade of everything being alright and show their real selves — being vulnerable with their brokenness, pain, and suffering.

Sacred moments like having conversations with people who have finally come to terms with who they are. And they struggle with how to tell their loved ones out of fear of being rejected or hated as if their…