Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard

Bible Text: Matthew 9:18-26 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard “Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” That’s the definition of faith from Hebrews 11:1. Faith assures us that what we have rightly hoped for on the basis of God’s Word will indeed be

Bible Text: Matthew 9:1-8 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard Four men bring their paralyzed friend to Jesus, and they will not let anything get in their way. You can picture these four burden-bearers hurrying through the street to the house where Jesus is, others who are unencumbered passing them by

Bible Text: Luke 17:11-19 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard Our reading starts by noting that Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem. In Luke 9 Jesus “set His face to go to Jerusalem” (Lk. 9:51), and in Luke 19 He arrives in Jerusalem, and for ten chapters Jesus is journeying

Bible Text: Luke 10:23-37 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard I pray, I sincerely pray, that you never desire what the lawyer in today’s reading desired, for desire what he desired is to desire hell. He asked a simple enough question, albeit a bit of a strange one: “Teacher, what shall

Bible Text: Mark 7:31-37 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard There are several Gospel readings during the course of the Church Year that begin with Jesus changing location: “When Jesus had come down from the mountain” (Mt. 8:1, Epiphany 3). “Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them

Bible Text: Luke 16:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard In today’s parable Jesus sets two men before us. First there’s a rich man who has great wealth and possessions and lands. He lets out his land to sharecroppers who pay him with a portion of their harvest. Then there’s the

Bible Text: Luke 5:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing!” (Lk. 5:5). Peter is exhausted. He worked through the night: moving the boat, casting the nets, pulling up the nets with nothing in them. “Next time. Next cast.” He drove himself on, spot

Bible Text: John 3:1-15 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard Man is rational. This is one of the things that makes man man. We can think and deliberate and plan. We have the use of language, which is not something that we figured out on our own, but the very day