Remember the sabbath day. Call the sabbath a delight. This is the Lord’s day, and the Lord will do for us what the Lord does: feed us, forgive us, help and heal us. Rejoice at all the wonderful things God is doing.
View the Sermon (PDF)August 17, 2025, Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Jesus is the great divide in human history who invites our undivided attention and devotion. Surrounded by a great “cloud of witnesses” who by faith were made strong in weakness, we also run with perseverance the race that is set before us, always looking to Jesus, “the pioneer and perfecter of faith.” His word is […]
View the Sermon (PDF)August 10, 2025, Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Paul writes, “faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Faith always watches, trusts and stands ready for signs of the kingdom in us and in this world. Abraham believed the Lord, and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness, and so Abraham and Sarah died seeing God’s […]
View the Sermon (PDF)August 3, 2025, Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Today’s reading from Ecclesiastes reminds us of the vanity and emptiness of the world’s riches, and Jesus urges us to take care and be on guard against greed and living for wealth. Paul encourages us to set our minds on things that are above, for we have died to sin and been raised with Christ. […]
View the Sermon (PDF)July 27, 2025, Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Today’s readings remind us to be persistent in prayer. Abraham modeled persistence in prayer, asking God to be merciful to Sodom, and Jesus taught his disciples to pray, modeling a life of persistent conversation with God. To follow Christ is to ask, search, and knock in prayer. God hears and answers prayer, strengthening and changing […]
View the Sermon (PDF)July 20, 2525, Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Jesus reminds us that we are “worried and distracted by many things.” Amid life’s busyness, Mary’s example reminds us to spend time with Jesus in prayer, because as Paul writes, “in him all things hold together.” Jesus is the “mystery hidden throughout the ages” who has been revealed so that we might see anew Jesus […]
View the Sermon (PDF)July 13, 2025, Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Today’s reading from Deuteronomy reminds us what God commands is not too hard, nor too far away. God’s word is very near — in your mouth and in your heart. To love God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind leads to loving your neighbor as your self. In today’s gospel, Jesus tells the […]
View the Sermon (PDF)July 6, 2025, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
In the reading from Galatians, Paul encourages us to always work for the good of all in both church and in the world. We are to live following the rule of peace and mercy. Jesus’ sending of the seventy-two encourages us to work for a plentiful harvest of God’s kingdom alive in Christ Jesus. We […]
View the Sermon (PDF)June 29, 2025, Third Sunday after Pentecost
Paul encourages us saying, “For freedom Christ has set us free.” Christian freedom means liberation from our broken and sinful ways to freely love and serve our neighbor as Jesus Christ. In the gospel, Jesus also reminds us that the call to follow him liberates us from all that limits us, so that truly freed, […]
June 22, 2025, Second Sunday after Pentecost
Today’s gospel reminds us that Jesus seeks out all who are held captive by the unclean spirits of the world, offering restoration of body, mind and spirit. Paul describes baptism as being clothed with Christ, that we become one in Christ amid our diversity. No matter our ethnicity, social background, gender, or identity, God in […]
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