Our sermons are only a part of our Sunday morning, but they are an important part – they are the Word of God presented to us in our context so that we can repent, seek to amend our lives, and receive God’s grace through the power of the Gospel.

Can you endure?

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable…

How old is your faith?

About the 12th Sunday After Pentecost: We begin our exploration into Vintage Faith with the stories of the first human beings and how their stories led to them choosing God when it wasn’t popular to do so. Nonetheless, the people in the Genesis account followed in faith and lived according to God’s design and plan.…

What choice do you have?

About the 6th Sunday after Pentecost: There is a predominant theme of discipleship and calling in these readings. Twice we hear the story of the demands of following as a disciple, first in 1 Kings and then in Luke. The Psalm gives us words to consider as we offer ourselves as disciples to God. Paul…

What is your name?

About the fifth Sunday after Pentecost: The readings for this Sunday all include an element of God’s saving work. He promises that He will save some out of the judgment in Isaiah 65, the Psalmist in Psalm 3 cries out for God to arise and save, and in Luke 8, we read a story of…

Do you curse?

About 4th Sunday after Pentecost: Sin plays a big role in the theme of this day’s readings, but so does forgiveness. The readings show that no matter the sin, the solution is always the same – the justifying work of Jesus Christ, not the Law which cannot utterly defeat sin, but only justification. We ourselves…

What do you go back to?

About Third Sunday after Pentecost – There is no escaping the theme of death vs life when reading these readings this week. We are called to look at the death that our sin deserves, but also to the life which Christ offers us through the justification of our souls by His suffering and death. We…

Has this always been the plan?

Trinity Sunday is the Sunday in which we consider the nature of God Himself. Given that our annual focus this year is “Wise Unto Salvation”, we are drawn to the reading from Proverbs about wisdom and how wisdom and God interact The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a…

What Could We Do Together?

The Tower of Babel Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone,…