Live this week from the perspective that YOU are one of those in white
robes, standing before the throne of God, washed in the blood of the
Lamb. Let that perspective speak to how you live, how you see yourself,
how you treat others, decisions you make, and opportunities the Lord
gives you to serve Him.

First Reading: Acts 9:1-6 (7-20)
Second Reading: Revelation 5:11-14
Gospel: John 21:1-12

Sermon Theme: Throughout the book of Revelation we have these
outbursts of song and praise and worship of the Lamb. These songs and
times of worship carry a deep significance for us still today, especially
when it comes to the hope and victory we know in the Lamb. There are
angels, people, and all creation giving honor to the Lamb.

First Reading: Acts 5:27-32
Second Reading: Revelation 1:1-11
Gospel: John 20:19-31
Sermon Title: “The Revelation from Jesus Christ”

Our Worthy is the Lamb series begins at the beginning!
John very clearly lays the groundwork for what this vision is which the
Lord gave to him. We’ll walk through what some of the details mean for
us when it comes to God’s framework of time, who his intended
“audience” is, the significance of beginning with a doxology of praise to
God, what that doxology reveals to us about who God is, and finally, how
it all got started.

The Resurrection of our Lord, Easter Sunday

“The basis upon which Christians can speak to one another is that each knows the other as a sinner, who, with all his human dignity, is lonely and lost if he is not given help…. This recognition gives to our brotherly speech the freedom and candor that it needs. We speak to one another on the basis of the help we both need.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
April 6, 2025 – The Fifth Sunday in Lent
Old Testament: Psalm 126
Epistle: 1 Peter 4:1-6
Gospel: Luke 23:13-31
Sermon Title: “I Need This… and This… and This…)"

Many of our contemporaries alter their faith when tough times come. “I can’t believe in a God who would…” 1 Peter 1:6-9 gives insight to keep us grounded in the grand narrative of Christian salvation even when we want to cry out with Jesus, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

March 30, 2025 – The Fourth Sunday in Lent 
Old Testament: Psalm 32
Epistle: 1 Peter 1:6-9
Gospel: Luke 22:66-23:12 
Sermon Title: “I Can’t Believe in a God Who Would”

“Modern Christianity tends to think of the church either as a place where individuals come to find answers to their questions or as one more stop where individuals can try to satisfy their consumerist desires. As such, Christianity becomes intellectualized rather than incarnate, commodified rather than the site of genuine community.” (James K.A. Smith) March 23, 2025 – The Third Sunday in Lent Old Testament: Psalm 63:1-8 Epistle: 1 Peter 4:7-11 Gospel: Luke 22:47-65 Sermon Title: “Who Am I?”

Modernism has left us with nothing. Back in the Enlightenment or the Age of Reason, leading thinkers believed that science, reason and logic could lead us to perfection. Reason failed. 1 Peter 1:3-5 presents the story—the Gospel word—by which the Spirit of God defines us amid all the stories swirling around us. This is the grand narrative to which Peter gives witness, that God has acted for us by enabling us to live lives of hope and purpose based in the resurrection of his Son from the dead. Our Life Together as a congregation is living in this story amidst all the stories clamoring for attention in contemporary America.

Old Testament: Psalm 27
Epistle: 1 Peter 1:3-5
Gospel: Luke 22:7-23, 39-46

Peter reminds his readers that their “Life Together” came from the Word of God. That word came in baptism (“you have been born again”) and in preaching (“this is the word that was preached to you”). By obeying the preached word, a working of the Spirit, they were purified (“you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth”).

That true and eternal word produces love for one another in our ever-changing lives (quoting Isaiah 40:6-8).