Category: Sermons

A sermon on Matthew 7:15-23 for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. A couple weeks ago, on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity, we looked at Jesus’ instruction, “Judge not” (Lk 6:37) and distinguished between the kind of judging He wants us to do and the kind of judging He doesn’t want…

A sermon on Mark 8:1-9 for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. Last Sunday, I had to take my four-year-old and my one-year-old on our flight back home. Our flight was scheduled for 5:13 pm, which made dinner kind of difficult. It was an hour to get to the airport and…

A sermon on Matthew 5:20-26 for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity. Delivered by Pastor Mark Wold. No transcript is available for this sermon.

A sermon on Luke 5:1-11 for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. I don’t know much about fishing, but it seems like every fisherman has his own special trick. Whether it’s the secret spot, the unique lure, the special source to get worms, every time I’ve been fishing with someone who…

A sermon on Luke 6:36-42 for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. Everyone’s favorite Bible verse is John 3:16. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Right, I didn’t even need to recite it,…

A sermon on Luke 15:1-10 for the Third Sunday after Trinity. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. “Bad company corrupts good character.” Is that something your mom ever had to say to you growing up? If she did, it was probably a little judgmental, right, she didn’t like your friends or the people you were hanging…

A sermon on Luke 14:16-24 for the Second Sunday after Trinity. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. One thing that seems really complicated to me is wedding invitation etiquette. I’m not even talking about who you have to invite and how to navigate those webs of relationships, but just how the invites are sent. It’s not…

A sermon on Luke 16:19-31 for the First Sunday after Trinity. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. Let’s say you’re out and about, running some errands, and you run into someone that you haven’t seen in forever. So you try to quickly catch up, fill in those past few years, you ask, “How are you doing?…

A sermon on the Athanasian Creed for Trinity Sunday. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. The Athanasian Creed is kinda odd for a lot of different reasons. It wasn’t written by St. Athanasius. Although it bears his name, he didn’t have anything to do with it, it was written later by people imitating his confession of…

https://youtu.be/S3R0l-GWdIU A sermon on Acts 2:1-13 for the Feast of Pentecost. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. χάρις  ὑμῖν  καὶ  εἰρήνη  ἀπὸ  Θεοῦ  Πατρὸς  ἡμῶν  καὶ  Κυρίου  Ἰησοῦ  Χριστοῦ. Gratia vobis et pax a Deo Patre nostro et Domino Iesu Christo. Que Dios nuestro Padre y el Señor Jesucristo les concedan gracia y paz. Grace to…