Pastor Megan Rohrer

Responding to the idea that God's love is only available to a few, this sermon explores letters that help us expand our understanding of God's love.

Jesus' baptism in the Gospel of Mark makes us wonder if he is good or a demon. When we wonder or others wonder, we can remember God's love for us and like some of the Wonders of the World how the happy accidents sometimes make the world more beautiful.

Jesus plucks corn from the fields and declares that the rules of the Sabbath bend toward compassion and grace. Given this good news, how do we read the other stories about how God has ordered the world? How should we live? Can the rules be rewritten?

Beginning with a Native American Christmas story about an elder meeting in the forrest, Pastor Megan encourages the faithful to balance the amount of self care and sacrifice in our lives.

Through the lens of the birth stories of Moses and Pastor Megan's nephew Adam, we are reminded that the Bible stories are only Good News if we read them that way.

Sometimes God wrestles, kicks us in the butt to become better, nurtures us like a mother and tells us to feed the hungry. What do you think God is saying to you today?

With the love of a nagging mother, God loves us ridiculously. It's not true that you have to follow a list of rules to be loved by God, God comes to us - no matter how many times we screw it up.

Another parable that paints God as a bad farmer. Or, is this a story of Jesus painting a true story of God being present in our really messed up world? You choose.

What is the best way to get it together and live the way God wants us to? Is it even up to us, or does fate and God's intention set our course? Looking at the evolution of God's relationship with farming and biblical stories about farming, Pastor Megan begins to unpack some of these age old questions.

Through the stories of wedding and love, we learn about how our tendency to tell stories changes based on our relationship. All these stories help to shape our life and understanding of God. Regardless of the stories we tell or others tell about us. The most important story is God's love for us.

The story of Pentecost and why it's ok to have diverse understandings and stories about God that feed our Lutheran souls.

Jesus stories and stories of baptisms in unusual spaces. Hear stories about how we can feel connected to other Lutherans through the baptisms and work of others Lutheran's hands.

If getting everything you ask for is the sign that God exists, how can God exist if I didn't get everything I want?

Can God's scars make it easier to sit with injustice and our own fragile imperfections? A new look at the ancient ghost story of a post-resurrected Jesus.

How the unexpected baptism of Laurel Rohrer relates to the unexpected followers of Jesus who discover the empty tomb. Learn why believing in yourself is possibly more important then believing in Christ's resurrection.

A homily for the Maundy Thursday Service at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in San Francisco.

Rev. Megan Rohrer is the Pastor at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in San Francisco and served as the Executive Director as Welcome for the homeless and hungry in San Francisco since June of 2012. Pastor Megan has an Honorary Doctorate from Palo Alto U

Recorded Live at the March 2014 JOB Talks in San Francisco. These talks were a partnership between SF CARES and Welcome and were held at St. Paulus Lutheran Church. Find out where our upcoming talks will be here: http://jobconferenceblog.blogspot.com/p/events.html

Stephen talks about how signing a song about a bullied LGBTQ person for the San Francisco Gay Men's Choir changed his life. Recorded Live at the March 2014 JOB Talks in San Francisco. These talks were a partnership between SF CARES and Welcome and were held at St. Paulus Lutheran Church. Find out where our upcoming talks will be here: http://jobconferenceblog.blogspot.com/p/events.html

Megan shares lessons learned being ordained extraordinarily as an LGBTQ indvidual to pastors and congregational leaders who may think they want more attention and renown in the church. Recorded Live at the March 2014 JOB Talks in San Francisco. These talks were a partnership between SF CARES and Welcome and were held at St. Paulus Lutheran Church.