Sermon for All Saints’ Day, 2025: Matthew 5:1-12

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ + Amen.   Who are you? That’s such a loaded question in this day and age, isn’t it? It seems simple enough, but when you really think about it, it’s actually quite complex....

Sermon for Reformation Day, 2025: Luke 18:9-17

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. + Amen Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I wish you a very blessed Reformation Day. As the Sunday in October closest to October 31st, we celebrate the historic moment of...

Sermon for October 19, 2025: Luke 18:1-8

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ + Amen. My son, Elliot, loves to go outside. As the weather has become cooler, Emma and I have started putting up a little tent on our porch for him to keep some books and snacks...

Sermon for 10/12/2025: Luke 17:11-19

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ + Amen.  There’s an old joke among Christians that’s been on a whole host of magnets, stickers, and little newspaper comics bearing the phrase “I found Jesus! He was behind the...

Sermon for 9/28/2025: Luke 16:19-31

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.  Today we hear a parable of Jesus of a man who has nothing and a man who has plenty. Yet, this dynamic does not play out how you would think. On the one side, we have the...

Sermon for 9/21/2025: Luke 16:1-15

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ + Amen. The parable that we hear from Jesus today is… well, infamous among preachers. It’s a hard text to crack. At first glance, it hardly makes any sense, and at second glance,...