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 […]
View the Sermon (PDF)June 15, 2025, The Holy Trinity / First Sunday after Pentecost
“O Lord our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” Today we celebrate the holy Trinity. Paul writes that through Jesus we have peace with God, whose love pours into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, giving us lasting hope. We celebrate the gracious One-in-Three, eternal Three-in-One, as we worship in community; […]
View the Sermon (PDF)June 8, 2025, Day of Pentecost
On Pentecost, we celebrate that we have been given an Advocate who abides with and leads us. Poured out in the power of wind and fire through the word and the sacraments of water, bread and wine, the Holy Spirit abides in and among us. We give thanks that God speaks to each of us, […]
View the Sermon (PDF)June 1, 2025, Seventh Sunday of Easter
In Jesus’ high priestly prayer, he prays that we may all be one so that the world may believe, and Acts reminds us that all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. Jesus Christ is gathering the world’s diverse people into one flock, because in one another we see, hear, and […]
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