Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost – June 17th, 2018 Mark 4:26-34 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. One of the things I love about serving this church is the beauty of our sanctuary. We have these beautiful...

Sermon for the Third Sunday after Pentecost – June 10, 2018 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1, Mark 3:20-35 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. “So we do not lose heart,” St. Paul writes in our second reading for today. “So we do...

Sermon for Holy Trinity Sunday – May 27th, 2018 Isaiah 6:1-8, John 3:1-17 Dear friends, grace to you and peace, in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Two billion people around the world watched the Royal Wedding last weekend. There are lots of...

Sermon for Pentecost Sunday – May 20th, 2018 Acts 2:1-21, Romans 8:22-27, John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15  Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. What is the Holy Spirit? Where can we find it? How can we experience it? What does it...

Sermon for Ascension of our Lord – May 13, 2018 Acts 1:1-11, Ephesians 1:15-23, Luke 24:44-53 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. The first human being to go to space was the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. After he...

Sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter – May 6, 2018 John 15:9-17 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Last week my wife and I went on a rare midweek date night to go see a special screening of a new movie by the same...

Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Easter – April 22, 2018 John 10:11-18 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. My family and I went to Yellowstone National Park a couple of summers ago. It was our second trip there as a...

Sermon for Easter Sunday – April 1st, 2018 Mark 16:1-8 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. We don’t usually think of Easter as a terrifying holiday, but perhaps you noticed that in Mark’s gospel, the resurrection of...

Sermon for the Sunday of the Passion – March 25th, 2018 Mark 15:1-47 What does it all mean, this Passion of our Lord Jesus? What does it all mean: the crown of thorns, the cry of despair, the last breath? To understand what our Lord Jesus has done for us we need to go...

Sermon for the Fifth Sunday in Lent – March 18, 2018 John 12:20-33 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. When my boys were really little we went on a long road trip to Arizona to see their grandmas, both of whom were...