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,...

Sermon for 9/7/2025: Philemon

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ + Amen. Very rarely in our lectionary does a pastor have the opportunity to preach on an entire book of the Bible, but today, as our Epistle reading was the entire book of...

Sermon for 8/31/2025: Hebrews 13:1-17

 Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ + Amen.  According to the ancient tradition of the church, Saint John the evangelist lived to be very old, but was still part of the community of the church in Ephesus even in his...