Preaching – Take Off Your Shoes

They did nothing. Wrong.

July 12, 2016 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Sermon on The Good Samaritan, July 10, 2016, Advent Lutheran Church, Melbourne, FL Luke 10: 29-37 29 But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And

Moment of Zen

February 11, 2015 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

Jon Stewart announced last night that he will be leaving The Daily Show some time this year. This news, from the man from whom I’ve

August 23, 2010: Tilt

August 23, 2010 Rev. Marie Noelle Duquette

During a funeral at which I officiated a couple of hours ago, the grandsons of the deceased, all 20-somethings in a Metallica band that is

I notice connections between people, events, movies, music, writings, the spoken word, that seem independent of one another. I write and speak about these connections because I have been created for this work and it has the potential to draw people together and transform rough places into plains of peace. I am a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; a writer whose muse is active and insistent; a lover of new experiences; a dreamer of old. I am fueled by both music and silence; I appreciate truths that can only be conveyed in whispers, if in any language at all. I have more friends than I deserve, a big fat french family I adore, and a lovely apartment with a fireplace in front of which I am now leading virtual worship. My most palpable experience of God's presence took place in a chapel in Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. In that place, where every great world religion was depicted by both name and symbol, a miracle took shape in 2005 that continues to inform my faith today. I believe the key to world peace is our willingness to understand one another and take the risks required to do that. My two sons are some of God's finest work; they are a blessing to me and to the world. I thank God for every single day of this wonder we know as life. And I thank you, for stopping by to take off your shoes and step into the shoes of those whose stories I am privileged to tell.

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