Sermon for November 24, 2020 – Thanksgiving Eve

Lectionary 34.5(Thanksgiving Eve) – November 24, 2020 Faith Lutheran Church Isanti, MN Grace to you all and peace from God our creator, and our Lord and savior Jesus the Christ. Amen. Thanksgiving, as a holiday in the United States traces its beginning back to October...

Sermon for November 15, 2020

Grace to you all and peace from God our creator, and our Savior Jesus the Christ. Amen. I have said before and will say again that the best definition of the gospel I have ever heard is that the gospel is “God’s good news for our bad situations.” Yet, some weeks as we...

Sermon for November 8, 2020

Lectionary 32 – November 8, 2020 Faith Lutheran Church Isanti, MN In middle school, I had the opportunity to go on a Boy Scout trip to the Grand Canyon. For most of a week, we camped at the Havasupai Indian Reservation, and explored the surrounding canyons. The...

Sermon for November 1, 2020 – All Saints

Lectionary 31 (All Saints) – November 1, 2020 Faith Lutheran Church Isanti, MN   Revelation 7:9-17 Psalm 31:1-10, 22 1 John 3:1-3 Matthew 5:1-12 The beatitudes that we just heard read today are part of the introduction to the larger sermon on the Mount that...

Sermon for October 25, 2020 – Reformation

Lectionary 30 – October 25, 2020 Faith Lutheran Church Isanti, MN Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 46 Romans 3:19-28 John 8:31-36 People like traveling for a lot of different reasons. Some people really like to go to all-inclusive resorts where all their meals are taken care...