Sermon on Genesis 1:9-13;  St. John 7:37-39;  Revelation 22:1-5 9/11 Memorial Service 11 September 2012 Jesu Juva It’s called “Freedom Plaza.”  I hope you have all had a chance to mourn and to rejoice at the original site of the World Trade Center.  Read the names of all those who died in the tragedy, memorialized […]

  Sermon on St. Luke 7:11-17 Trinity 16 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be in a resurrection like his. – Rom. 6:5 There are three traditional places for the liturgy of the Christian funeral:  the home, the church, and the cemetery.  These roughly correspond […]

In the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit             Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for You are with me. These familiar words of Psalm 23 comfort us when someone dies. These words also serve as […]

Sermon on St. Luke 10:23-37 Trinity 13 2 September 2012 Who is my neighbor? — St. Luke 10:29 Who is my neighbor?  Ask a law question and you’ll get a law answer.  Two questions of the law, in this case.  The lawyer of the synagogue asked what he had to do to inherit eternal life.  […]