Category: Sermons

A sermon on Luke 19:41-48 for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz.  People can cry for any number of seemingly contradictory reasons. Usually we associate crying with being sad but that’s not necessarily the case. People can cry tears of joy, you might cry when you’re really passionate about something, you…

A sermon on Luke 16:1-9 for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. One common movie trope is the need to obtain a large sum of money in a short amount of time. This can be found across genres and the rating of the movie will determine the rest of the details…

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?…