Sermons and Reflections
Our Pastor
The Rev. Emma Donohew has been serving churches since graduating from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley California in 2012. She has served congregations in Seattle, Portland, and Bellingham, as well as guest preaching across the Pacific Northwest. In addition to serving as the Care Pastor for the Lutheran Church in the San Juans, Pastor Emma is the Mission Developer of Echoes, a 12-year-old experimental faith community that was founded at Bellingham Pride. Echoes considers the city their sanctuary. Each Monday evening they explore Dinner, Creative, Wild, Service, and Pub Church. Together they ponder how can we use our gatherings to invite people to share in God’s lavish love. When she’s not using spirituality as a lens for art and conversation, Emma can be found hiking in the North Cascades or beachcombing the shores of north Whidbey Island and Deception Pass, where she lives with her husband Eric and their dogs Madrona & Juniper.
You can reach Pastor Emma via email at pastoremmad@gmail.com
Sermon for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
July 27, 2025. Texts: Genesis 18:20-32; Colossians 2:6-15 [16-19]; Luke 11:1-13. It comes down to this. Our time together is up. Of all the possible things to say, what should the last thing, the last word, be? It turns out that some habits are hard to break. In this case,...
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July 20, 2025. Texts: Genesis 18:1-10a; Colossians 1:15-28; Luke 10:38-42. Long ago human eyes watched clear nights unfold on a beautifully velvet dark canvas, so filled with stars and planets that it is beyond our imagining. Those same eyes observed a landscape which provided everything necessary for acquiring food, shelter,...
Read MoreSermon for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
July 13, 2025. Texts: Deuteronomy 30:9-14; Colossians 1:1-14; Luke 10:25-37. If all Jesus came to say was “be nice to each other” then, really, his whole trip to the cross was pretty unnecessary, don’t you think? And yet, somehow, this is where the story of an unfortunate man who was...
Read MoreSermon for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
July 6, 2025. Texts: Isaiah 66:10-14; Galatians 6:[1-6] 7-16; Luke 10:1-11, 16-29. If there is a byword for this week’s lessons, perhaps it is “on the way”. Call it a slogan or a meme if you prefer. It’s not just a bible thing though. Because a lot of things happen,...
Read MoreSermon for the Third Sunday after Pentecost
June 29, 2025. Texts: 1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21; Galatians 5:1, 13-25; Luke 9:51-62. In the wee hours of a February morning in Loveland, Colorado a pickup truck slid off the road. The police arrived on the scene, found the driver uninjured and determined that a slick, dark, tarry substance had...
Read MoreSermon for the Second Sunday after Pentecost
June 22, 2025. Texts: Isaiah 65:1-9; Galatians 3:23-29; Luke 8:26-39. The season of Pentecost, which we have now officially entered, is long. This year it will last for twenty-three weeks. Take that in for a moment. It will be late November before this season gives way to the next one....
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