August 15, 2021 St. Luke 1:39-56 August 15th should be Mother’s Day for Christians. Why? Because Mary is a better model to mothers, unmarried women, and young girls than anything Hallmark can put on a card or the world will…
2021 Trinity 10 H Sermon
Weep Over Jerusalem Luke 19:41-48 August 8, 2021 anno Domini Jerusalem is God’s favorite city. That’s where God put Himself in the Old Testament – seated above the Cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant, in the Temple, on Mount…
2021 Sermon – St. James the Elder, Apostle
To Each His Own St. Mark 10:35-45 July 25, 2021 anno Domini Please do not call your funeral a celebration of your life. If you do and I’m still the pastor here, I’m going to do what the church does…
2021 Sermon for Trinity 9 H
The Impressing Israelites 1 Corinthians 10:6-13 August 1, 2021 anno Domini You know how your story ends – or to use Saint Paul’s language – you are those “on whom the end of the ages has come.” Because you believe…
2021 Trinity 5 H Sermon
Fishing for Faith St. Luke 5:1-11 July 4, 2021 anno Domini Jesus didn’t need to use Peter’s boat. He could have walked on water. He didn’t need Peter to cast out his nets. He could have made those fish jump…
2021 Trinity 4 H Sermon
To Judge or Not to Judge Luke 6:36-42 June 27, 2020 anno Domini Sometimes I think we should end certain Scripture readings not with “This is the Word of the Lord,” but, “This does not mean what you think it…
2021 Trinity 3 H Sermon
The God Who Isn’t Fair St. Luke 15:11-32 June 20, 2021 anno Domini Micah the prophet asks, “Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity?” Micah wasn’t looking for an answer. He knew the answer. There is no God like…
2021 Trinity 2 H Sermon
The Feast of Forgiveness Luke 14:15-24 June 13, 2021 anno Domini God does nothing for Himself. He does it all for you. God did not need to create the world and everything in it. By the time Noah comes along…
2021 Trinity 1 Sermon
Before and After St. Luke 16:19-31 June 6, 2021 anno Domini In the text the Holy Spirit paints a before and after picture for us. In the before picture we behold the American dream. There sits a rich man, an…
2021 Trinity Sermon
You Must be Born Again John 3:1-17 May 30, 2021 anno Domini Who has known the mind of the Lord? Certainly not Nicodemus. To him the judgments of the Lord were unsearchable and his ways inscrutable. Nicodemus comes to Jesus…