Rock of Ages Lutheran Church, Payson, Arizona (WELS)

James 3:13-18 ● 2021-09-26 ● Print ● Listen ● Watch Have you ever had to distinguish between a poison berry and an edible one? It’s not always easy just by looking at the surface. Growing up my family had a yard filled with all kinds of edible fruits. We had currents, grapes, raspberries, plums, and […]

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1 Kings 18:16-39 ● 2021-09-19 ● Print ● Listen ● Watch Watch on YouTube According to a 2021 survey, church membership in our nation has dropped below the majority for the first time ever. That survey includes all types of churches and religions. Yet the majority of churches in our nation have been Christian churches […]

Isaiah 35:4-7 ● 2021-09-12 ● Print ● Listen ● Watch Imagine you arrive back at your home today only to find it is all in flames. One of your neighbors comes to you and says, “Don’t worry, I called the fire department as soon as I saw the smoke. They are on their way.” When […]

Mark 7:1-23 ● 2021-09-05 ● Print ● Listen ● Watch It’s a sad and crippling condition. It causes the parent of a newborn to hourly sanitize every toy and wipe down every surface with disinfectant. It makes some paralyzed with paranoia. It’s called mysophobia: the pathological fear of contamination. It’s commonly called “germaphobia.” And it’s […]

Joshua 24:14-18 ● 2021-08-29 ● Print ● Listen ● Watch I find it interesting when an Olympic athlete chooses to compete for another country from the one which they have spent most of their lives and training in. It’s not uncommon. An athlete who grew up benefiting from the training facilities and coaches of their […]

2 Corinthians 9:8-11 ● 2021-08-01 ● Series: A Faithful Minister ● Print ● Listen ● (Watch a previous message) There’s an interesting account in 2 Kings 4 about Elisha and a woman who had been married to a prophet and had children. Her husband, a prophet, had died, and she was in panic because their […]

Hebrews 13 v7-8,17-21 ● 2021-07-25 ● Series: A Faithful Minister ● Print ● Listen How do you suppose most people view pastors? If you’re like me, you probably know some pastors that you hold in the highest regard and others which you might not hold in quite such high regard. I looked at some surveys […]

Titus 1:5-9 ● 2021-07-18 ● Series: A Faithful Minister ● Print ● Listen I still have a vivid picture in my mind of a college class from around twenty years ago. I was enrolled at Martin Luther College, our church body’s worker training college. It was one of the first classes required for those studying […]