SERMONS

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ + Amen.  Today we celebrate Holy Cross Day. In the church year, we often hold feasts and festivals throughout the year commemorating specific saints of the church or particular...

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...

 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...