SERMONS

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...

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.  In our Gospel reading today our Lord Jesus puts forward a set of warnings regarding what it takes to be saved. While the person asking Him the question “are those who will...

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ + Amen. “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished! Do...

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ + Amen. Adam and Eve had sinned. In the face of God, they were confronted with their guilt and shame over eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. God dealt out punishment. They...

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, + Amen.  In Jesus’s earthly ministry, our Lord often used stories as a way to drive home His points or to provoke deeper thought from His hearers about the things He taught. This...

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, + Amen.  These days, there’s a guide to just about everything out there. Go to the book store and you will find aisles and aisle of books for any kind of thing you could need a...

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.  When you hear the word “service,” what do you think of? What sorts of things come to mind? Maybe you think about service at a restaurant, or a frustrating endless customer...