Sermon for August 23, 2020

Apocalypse. What a scary word! For me, when I first hear it I think of fire and brimstone. I think of the END of everything as we know it, and the weeping and gnashing of teeth that we heard about a few weeks ago. And the apocalypse is a popular theme in our culture....

Sermon for August 16, 2020

Grace to you all and peace from God the creator, and our Lord and savior Jesus the Christ. Amen. Today’s gospel is quite a shocking reading. We hear that Jesus, upon being asked to heal a Canaanite woman’s daughter, initially refuses to perform the healing. Not only...

Sermon for August 9, 2020

Grace to you all and peace from God the creator, and our Lord and savior Jesus the Christ. Amen. “We are to fear, love, and trust God above all things” That is what I learned. “We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things.” Maybe that is what you learned?...

Sermon for August 2, 2020

Grace to you all and peace, from God our creator and our Lord and savior Jesus the Christ. Amen. Have you ever had a time when something had such a big emotional toll on you that you experienced a physical reaction to it? I can think back to my sophomore year in high...