Sermon for Bonnie Fox's memorial service on Pentecost Tuesday, May 21, 2024 ..read more

Sermon for Pentecost Maybe you know Pentecost comes from “fifty” means fifty days after easter. Originally, it was a feast fifty days after Passover, the feast of first fruits. Traditionally it was thought to be the day Moses gave the law to the children of Israel on Mt Sinai. We can even connect the physical first-fruits in the OT Pentecost with the spiritual first-fruits the beginning of the church, with the NT Pentecost. That all seems to make sense – but what about the main attraction of Pentecost? The big show – the tongues of fire and sound like a mighty rushing wind, and the speaking o ..read more

Sermon for the Sunday after Ascension. Guest preacher Rev. Richard Bellas ..read more

Sermon for the Ascension of Our Lord Guest preacher Rev. Richard Bellas ..read more

Sermon for Rogate This means that Jesus here has laid out what is necessary for true prayer in the time of His resurrection and ascension – that is, our time now. You may have heard of many things that people have said are needed for a good prayer, or maybe just assumed some, and we will get to some wrong assumptions. But there are five things Jesus lays out here as necessary for true prayer. The promise of God, faith, something for which we pray, desire that the petition be granted, the name of Christ ..read more

Sermon for Jubilate, the fourth Sunday of Easter As you may know, I have had close personal experience recently with the example from the gospel lesson today - A woman, when she in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come, but as soon as she gives birth to the child she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world ..read more

Guest sermon by Rev. Richard Bellas on Misericordias Domini, the Third Sunday of Easter ..read more

Sermon for the Annunciation of Our Lord We celebrate this because at this point God has become man, one of us, and will always be man. He is man then, today, and will be man forever. Our brother goes before us into eternal union with God.  What does the Son of God do when he takes on human flesh? He releases us from our bondage to the Law ..read more

Sermon for Good Friday Chief Divine Service Jesus Christ is the King of Truth, who has freed us from fear of the kings of the world, and brought us into his kingdom by His blood, so that like Him we may fear, love, and trust God above all things.  ..read more

Sermon for Good Friday Tenebrae Vespers by Rev. Rich Bellas ..read more