Sermons – St. John's Lutheran Church of Highland

There are things in the church and in life that we may never fully understand while we are here on earth, and they may even challenge our commitment to Christ, leaving us with the feeling of buyer’s remorse. The good news that we find in our Gospel lesson for today is that even when we […]

Today we hear Jesus say to us in John 6: “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” As followers of Christ, we are reminded of a dual opportunity for ministry in this text: the first is our collective ability […]

Today we hear Jesus say to us in John 6: “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” As followers of Christ, we are reminded of a dual opportunity for ministry in this text: the first is our collective ability […]

We come from a long line of hungry people in our families and church. Jesus still feeds us in the sacrament every Lord’s day! John 6:24-35

Today we hear of the disciples wondering if they would have enough as they look at the five loaves and two fish that were given to them by a boy to feed 5,000 people. Today’s text is a reminder that your gifts can always be a blessing, no matter how seemingly small in relation to […]

Using the African American spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” the preacher delves into the world of “shepherd-less sheep!” Mark 6: 30-56

If we believe that we are a part of the same family of faith and the same story of faith as the prophets of old and Elijah and John the Baptist and Jesus and the disciples, then we have a call to do the same deeds that they were doing and share the same words […]

When Jesus is on the go, he gets resistance in his home town. How does the church proclaim the Gospel when it meets resistance? The preacher recounts a story when a fishing mission gets “sinkholed!” Mark 6:1-13

In our story for today, we are reminded that Jesus changes everything. Without the interruption of the healing of the woman who had been hemorrhaging for 12 years, Jairus’ daughter would not have died, and yet, this seemingly tragic circumstance became one of the greatest miracles that the people would see before Jesus’ own death […]

Today in our Gospel lesson the disciples and Jesus are in the midst of a storm out in a boat, when they cry out to him for help saying, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” And just as surely as Jesus cared then, stilling the storm so they might know peace, so […]