Matt Tebbe

Dear sisters and brothers, We just wrapped up our college of preachers the last 3 Sundays. If you had to miss or didn’t hear I encourage you to give a listen: We’ve done the college of preachers several times over the last few years, each…

Dear Church, 2023 is upon us! And we are in the season of Epiphany, a time of illumination and instruction where we learn from Christ how to walk in the light of truth. My question for us at this time is: What teaching or instruction…

Dear Church, As we approach Christmas let us keep in mind:  God chose to enter the human story in a poor family, from the marginalized region of Galilee, at a time of intense colonial oppression, to parents who suffered shame because of his birth, to…

Dear Church, We begin Advent this week, a time of preparation to receive the incarnation of Jesus Christ anew at Christmas. We talked about groaning and lament this past Sunday. Here, again, is what I preached on Romans 8:15-25: The good news is that the…

Church, I write you this letter with a full heart: it’s been a long discernment process for our denominational affiliation, and I’m glad we are through the meat of it. For those wondering, here are next steps for us: 1) Our initial affiliation with the…

Dear Church, I’ve been back from sabbatical now almost 2 months and continue to be thankful for the rest I enjoyed this summer and the honor it is to serve you as Priest. Our sermon from last Sunday was a well known, but often misunderstood,…

Church, It’s good to be back from my mini-sabbatical. I plan to share a bit more at our all church meeting this Sunday (Aug 14 from 4-6pm), so suffice it to say: my heart is full, the rest was sweet, and I’m energized to reenter…

Church, This past Sunday we talked about how New Creation, the eternal life to which we are called, is about God’s presence and power at work in our world. This is why we tend to and enter into Kairos moments: to discover how God’s future…

Dear Church, It’s Holy Week. Lent culminates in Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and then leads us into Eastertide on Easter Sunday. We will have services on every day but Saturday (maybe next year?) and these are some of the highest and holiest days…

Dear Church, Our Lenten journey continues this week; we are just over the halfway point until Easter. Some realizations are emerging from our discussions on Mammon together that I want to name for us all:  This Mammon ‘thing’ is bigger and deeper than most of…