Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard

2-16-25 Septuagesima

Bible Text: Matthew 20:1-16 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard The first major feast that the Christian Church celebrated annually was the Resurrection of Our Lord. Baptisms would happen at the Easter Vigil, and since there were many adult converts who needed to be instructed in the Christian faith before then,

February 16, 2025
Bible Text: Matthew 20:1-16 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard The first major feast that the Christian Church celebrated annually was the Resurrection of Our Lord. Baptisms would happen at the…

1-19-25 Epiphany 2

Bible Text: John 2:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard On the sixth day of creation there was a joyful wedding as the Lord joined Adam and Eve together in marriage. The wine of gladness flowed freely there in paradise. But then that wine ran out as Adam and Eve sinned,

January 19, 2025
Bible Text: John 2:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard On the sixth day of creation there was a joyful wedding as the Lord joined Adam and Eve together in marriage.…

12-25-24 Christmas Day

Bible Text: John 1:1-18 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard Today we rejoice because the Lord is gracious. Indeed, the Lord has always been gracious. It is His nature and character to be gracious, as He declared to Moses: “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger,

December 25, 2024
Bible Text: John 1:1-18 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard Today we rejoice because the Lord is gracious. Indeed, the Lord has always been gracious. It is His nature and character…

12-15-24 Gaudete

Bible Text: Matthew 11:2-10 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard We don’t know whether John was asking for his own sake, or whether he sent his disciples to Jesus with a question for their sake, but regardless, we do well this Sunday to take up the question: “Are you the one

December 15, 2024
Bible Text: Matthew 11:2-10 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard We don’t know whether John was asking for his own sake, or whether he sent his disciples to Jesus with a…

11-10-24 Trinity 24

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

November 10, 2024
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…

10-6-24 Trinity 19

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

October 6, 2024
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…

9-1-24 Trinity 14

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

September 1, 2024
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…

8-25-24 Trinity 13

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

August 25, 2024
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…

8-18-24 Trinity 12

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

August 18, 2024
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…

7-28-24 Trinity 9

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

July 28, 2024
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…
Search
Recent Sermons