Category: Sermons

If Sunday’s Gospel seemed a little out of place, this one is, at first glance, even more bewildering. We started Advent with Palm Sunday and now we’re continuing on to Good Friday. What’s the deal? This feels a little messed up. For our Advent midweek services these next three weeks, we’ll be looking at the…

A sermon on Matthew 21:1-9 for the First Sunday in Advent. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz.  We just started Advent, so why are we reading about Palm Sunday? It doesn’t make any sense. And chronologically, it doesn’t. We also see this text the Sunday before Easter as Jesus rides into Jerusalem to die and rise…

A sermon on Luke 17:11-19 for Thanksgiving. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz.  Christmas is one of the most exciting days in a child’s life because you can ask for just about anything, and you’ll get it. I remember one year I had my heart set on a Darth Vader voice changer. If you don’t know…

A sermon on Matthew 25:1-13 for the Last Sunday of the Church Year. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. One really interesting phenomenon is doomsday preppers. Have you heard of these guys? There are people who want to prepare for the end of the world, not in a theological sense, but in case nuclear bombs drop…

A sermon on Matthew 25:31-36 for the Second-Last Sunday of the Church Year. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. One of the things that really surprised me when we first moved to Florida was that our county’s sheriff is somewhat of a viral sensation. Just scrolling through my social media feeds, I’ll see videos of none…

A sermon on Ephesians 6:10-17 for the Twenty-First Sunday after Trinity. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. One of my favorite action movie tropes is the armory scene. The protagonists have maybe suffered an initial setback or a small defeat, but now they know what they’re up against. They’ve studied their enemies, they’ve put together a…

A sermon on Isaiah 25:6-9 for All Saints Sunday. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. Over the past couple weeks, I’m sure that you’ve seen a lot of strange things in people’s front yards: huge, inflatable dragons, giant skeletons, that sort of thing. One common Halloween decoration that I’ve noticed are headstones. Some yards will have…

A sermon on 2 Chronicles 29:12-19 for Reformation Sunday. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz.  On October 31, 1517, an Augustinian monk nailed a piece of paper to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg. The man was Martin Luther and the document his 95 Theses, 95 statements for academic debate that called into question…

A sermon on Matthew 22:34-46 for the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. What is the center of Scripture? If you take one of the pew Bibles and let it fall open roughly to the middle, you’re probably somewhere in Proverbs or Isaiah. But the exact middle of the Bible is Psalm…

A sermon on Luke 14:1-11 for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. One of the most exhausting places to be in is the hospital. And it’s really ironic that that’s the case. Because with all of the medical problems going on they want you to get rest and get better, but…