Welcome

Welcome to my blog!  I’m glad you stopped by.

My name is Suzanne Miller, and I am a Moravian pastor, wife, friend, and most importantly, a follower of Jesus Christ.

Currently I am the Executive Director of Pastors for NC Children. We are a nonprofit-in-formation mobilizing faith leaders and congregations to advocate for justice for public schools in NC. From August 2008 to June 2011, I served as the associate pastor at Raleigh Moravian Church in Raleigh, NC.  From July 2011 to January 2012, I served under call to the Moravian Church, Southern Province as a Provincial Servant. I currently also stay at home with my children.  My husband Steve and I are striving to live as ordinary radicals showing hospitality to everyone we meet.  We believe God is calling us to love God and our neighbors wherever they are, and help bring heaven to earth on our little lot on the Avenue.  I’m excited to share my life and faith with you through this blog.  I hope you enjoy reading, and I hope you’ll leave a comment along the way!

Why Emmaus Ave?

This blog’s name comes from a passage in Luke 24 about 2 disciples walking home to the village of Emmaus [E-may-us] where they encounter the resurrected Jesus Christ on the night after the Resurrection.  They didn’t recognize Christ at first, but discovered it was him over a meal in their home when Jesus broke bread with them.  I believe this story serves as an analogy for our whole life–living on Emmaus Avenue involves looking for where we see Christ walking with us on our journey and how we help others see Christ walking alongside their life’s journey as well.  I live life trying to keep my eyes open for God’s invitation to join in where God is at work in and around me creating and recreating God’s Kingdom (kin-dom) here on earth as it is in heaven.  Thus this blog is a place for me to record my thoughts, sermons, photos, and other things I come across on the intersection of  life and faith, and to point out where I see God at work while I journey as disciple of Jesus. I hope in posting these things that the blog becomes a place for dialogue about life and faith, so please leave your thoughts in the comment sections!

Sermon Info

Regarding my sermons that I post, please feel free to quote or share these sermons, but I ask you to always include the source in your reference. Also, if you do quote from a sermon, I would appreciate hearing about it! Please leave a comment on the blog.  I have tried my best to properly give credit where credit is due!  If I have missed or improperly quoted a source, I am sorry and will be glad to fix it–Just let me know.

Dialogue

I recognize that sermons posted on a blog take them out of the context of the whole worship service.  I would love to include whole podcasts of worship, but that isn’t possible for me right now.  I have included the sermons on here in hopes that dialogue will occur. Sermons are mostly monologues, and I believe the multiplicity of voices and dialogue in worship is important.  For that reason I continue to post my sermons on here in hopes that they become dialogue. What do you think?  Do you agree or disagree? How do you engage the Scripture text for that day?  You don’t have to agree with me, but I ask all comments to be respectful.  Let’s talk…

(For Legal reasons: The opinions shared here are my own and are not endorsed by the Moravian Church or a particular congregation or Pastors for NC Children.)

Thanks for stopping by! And remember, “Love Wins.”