Pastor Megan Rohrer

A progressive Bible study for people with a little or a lot of faith. Taking the time to explain complex church concepts in ways that average folk can understand, this bible study seeks to foster connection with God over adherence to particular ideologies. Erring on the side of justice, this bible study may be healing for individuals who have been harmed by the church or by people of faith.

Bible Study that Doesn't Suck is a weekly bible study by progressive Lutheran pastors that errs on the side of justice. We also take the time to explain churchy things to non-churchy people.

Three Lutheran Pastors talk about Palm/Passion Sunday and the readings for Year B.

A sermon for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day.

The Gospel of Mark is encapsulated in Psalm 22. This sermon starts at Dachau and end with hope, love and an expansion of whom Good News is available too.

Jesus commands us to feed our neighbors. Even if it makes us feel uncomfortable, we ought to look for broken baskets of bread, opportunities to feed the stomachs of the hungry around us.

God is intentionally a terrible farmer, in order to love the world in all of it's chaotic, cattiness. While mission is one way to follow Jesus' example, more important is listening to each other and erring on the side of grace.

Jesus gets called a lot of names during his lifetime. His life and love provide us with an opportunity to learn to live with each other in turbulent times.

The many layers of God's love and judgement, explained by a progressive Lutheran pastor.

A sermon on the day of the largest mass shooting in America at an Orlando gay bar.

Reexamining the story of Babel - from the perspective that God loves diversity.

A sermon celebrating Pastor Susan Strouse and Orion Pitts, the leaders at First United Lutheran church and the congregations commitment to interfaith conversations about God.

Bible Study that Doesn't Suck is a weekly progressive bible study that slants Lutheran and takes the time to explain the big words for folk who have never been to church. We care about justice.

Audio from the Sunday worship service at Grace Lutheran in San Francisco

A weekly justice-centered bible study for freaks, geeks and folk who have never read the bible. We slant progressive, Lutheran and on the side of the poor.

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

The audio version of our Bible Study that Doesn't Suck weekly google hangout. This week I am joined by Finn.

What if everything you need to learn about grace, you already learned when you were a kid? This sermon takes it seriously when Jesus says that we should love God like kids.

Is your disability a disadvantage or a super power? Today's sermon argues the latter and helps us to not only see God's love for us (just as we are) but encourage us to love ourselves the same way.

How do you decide what to wear to church? When you are afraid of bullies? When you are publicly known as a hypocrite? When you don't want to pass our trauma on to others? Or, when you are a beloved child of God?

The sermon you preach when you welcome a jewish family to church and the Gospel reading is about how you have to take communion as your way to God.

What happens in scripture to make God less vocal and how do we live in such a messy world with such a quiet God. A progressive, Lutheran, justice slanted sermon.

Can we ever find real justice in such an unjust world. King David misuses his power in every way imaginable and still is a part of God's story. God also has a place for us.

Reflecting on Adam and Eve in the Garden and Jesus in the Gospel of mark, here are some thoughts about how to grow in life, as a Christian, as families and as church. Moral: God follows us through all our growing, rebelling, failing and hoping.

The story of Pentecost is often called the birth of the Church, Pastor Megan argues that it is actually the resurrection of dead churches everywhere and a call for us to continually step outside our doors and see what the spirit is up to in the world.

How a rule following transgender tax collector reminds us of God's rule bending love and welcome to all. Even when it breaks God's rules, or the rules of faith communities, God still chooses to abide with us and invites us to abide in God as we do what we can to serve our neighbors and love the best we can.

When the news gets you down, learn to have the have the outlook of a seven year old. God loves you and sees you as a seven too.

Stories that help us center our Lutheran gut, judge a bit less and see God in this messy world.

God is bigger than our metaphors and ideas. How can we be always looking for what God is up to?

We want to know what Jesus, Moses and Elijah were saying, not what they were wearing!

Thinking about health and wholeness. Miraculous healing happen for some...

Rethinking our conversations about demons and people living with disabilities. And a look at why the meat eating diet of ancient Christians mattered to their faith.

Perhaps God will change his mind and love us bigger than we've been told. The search for reconciliation in a world with genocide and addiction, hinges on a few disciples in a boat. Perhaps...

Peter's journey from a bumbling disciple to a leader our churches are literally built upon. How have can we see, feel, experience and find God in the sacred places where we worship? And can we become Jesus' newest disciples?

Helping us focus on the Good News in the world and thawing our hearts to once again pray mightily for peace and justice in the world.

Mary is not a passive participant in the Christmas story. She fights to bring God's justice to the world and shows us how to dedicate our lives and bodies to justice.

Thoughts on Mary's pregnancy and how it can help us understand justice.

Thought about longing for the presence of God to be immediate and tangible.

What numbers does God keep track of and why does it matter?

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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.