CLICK HERE for a worship video for February 16 Sermon for the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany – February 16, 2025 Luke 6:17-26 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Oftentimes in scripture the locations and landscapes are...

CLICK HERE for a worship video for February 9 Sermon for the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany – February 9, 2025 Luke 5:1-11 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Simon Peter got skunked. He had spent all night working that...

CLICK HERE for a worship video for February 2 Sermon for the Presentation of our Lord – February 2, 2025 Luke 2:22-40 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. We see it every Sunday: the elderly making their way into our...

CLICK HERE for a worship video for January 26 Sermon for the Third Sunday after Epiphany – January 26, 2025 Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10, Psalm 19, Luke 4:14-21 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. We often discount the...

CLICK HERE for a worship video for January 22 Sermon for the Second Sunday after Epiphany – January 19, 2025 John 2:1-11 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus turning water into wine at the wedding in Cana is more...

Sermon for Baptism of our Lord Sunday – January 12, 2025 Isaiah 43:1-7, Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Martin Luther once said, “There is on earth no greater comfort than baptism.” As much as we...

CLICK HERE for a worship video for January 5 Sermon for the Epiphany of our Lord (observed) – January 5, 2025 Matthew 2:1-12 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. “Follow the crowd.” I’m not sure anybody really thinks this...

Click here for a worship video for December 22 Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Advent – December 22, 2024 Luke 1:39-45 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Some of the most cherished and precious memories of my life are...

CLICK HERE for a worship video for December 15 Sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent – December 15, 2024 Luke 3:7-18 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. When people come to church, I usually say something like,...

Sermon for the Second Sunday of Advent – December 8, 2024 Luke 3:1-6 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. The roughest road I’ve ever been on (that wasn’t a forest service road) was Cleveland Avenue in Saint Paul,...