Category: Sermons

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 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…

A sermon on Mark 16:1-8 for Easter Sunday. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. Consider where we left off on Good Friday. Jesus hung on the cross from noon to 3 o’clock. The Sabbath starts at sunset, just a few hours away. What is to be done with Jesus’ body? His closest followers up until this…

A sermon on John 19:25-30 for Good Friday. Delivered by Pastor Caleb Strutz. One feature commonly found in Good Friday services is a meditation on Jesus’ seven words from the cross. We read all seven of these in the Passion History at last week’s midweek service. You could have a whole sermon on any one…