Category: Sermons

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…

A sermon on Acts 1:1-11 for the Ascension of Our Lord. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. A few minutes ago, we recited in the words of the Nicene Creed, “And ascended into heaven.” When we use the Apostles’ Creed, we say, “He ascended into heaven.” It’s there in the Athanasian Creed too, which we say…

A sermon on John 16:23-39 for the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. One of the most heartbreaking scenes in one of my favorite movies is in Forrest Gump when he’s recovering in the army hospital. When he was fighting in Vietnam, he wrote almost every day to his sweetheart back home.…

A sermon on John 16:5-15 for the Fifth Sunday of Easter. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. In our Gospel lesson for this morning, we encounter a very unique title for the Holy Spirit, from the Greek, “Paraclete,” translated for us here as “the Helper.” Now, that’s not necessarily a bad translation of “Paraclete,” but it’s…

A sermon on John 16:16-23 for the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. One thing that I’ve learned by being a parent is that time is relative. Time itself seems pretty absolute—you can measure it in minutes and in seconds—but how lengths of time are experienced differs dramatically from person to person.…

A sermon on John 10:11-16 for the Third Sunday of Easter. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz.  The Good Shepherd is one of the most familiar and beloved devotional images of Jesus. And it has been since the very beginning. Some of the earliest Christian imagery is the Good Shepherd, there’s images of this in the…

A sermon on John 20:19-31 for the Second Sunday of Easter. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. One strong proof for the resurrection of Christ is the dramatic change that happens in the disciples. They go from hiding behind locked doors to proclaiming the Gospel to the ends of the earth. They go from cowering in…