SERMONS

Pastor Heinz’s Sermons are posted as a blog weekly for use in your devotional life, whether you missed a Sunday or simply want to go back and pay closer to attention after hearing it in church.

Sermon for 11/23/2025: Luke 23:27-43

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. + Amen. Dear friends in Christ, we've come to the end of another church year. Next Sunday we begin the season of Advent, the beginning of a new church year directed toward and...

Sermon for 11/16/2025: Luke 21:5–28

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ + Amen.  Today Jesus gives us a warning of the signs of the times. War, famine, pestilence, pain in child birth, the destruction of the temple. A whole host of great and terrible...

Sermon for 11/9/2025: Luke 20:27-39

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 think it is important to address the elephant in the room. We just had All Saints’ Day last week and talked a lot about the saints...

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 10/5/2025: Luke 17:1–10

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ + Amen. Today we take a moment in our life as the church to note and celebrate the work of the Lutheran Women in Mission organization. This organization helps bring the Gospel...

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,...