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
Bible Text: John 10:11-16, Psalm 23:1 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard Alleluia! Christ is risen! “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want” (Ps. 23:1). To “want” something is to lack something. “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not lack,” that is to say, nothing is missing from
Bible Text: John 13:1-15, 34-35 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard Jesus didn’t have to give us anything this night. He was getting ready to die for us tomorrow. What more could we ask for? He was prepared to shed His blood and lay down His very life for sheep that
Bible Text: Matthew 26-27 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard It is a tradition in the Church, from time out of mind, to read the Passion according to Matthew on Sunday of Holy Week, the Passion according to Mark on Tuesday, the Passion according to Luke on Wednesday, and the Passion
Bible Text: Matthew 4:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard The devil is the master of a thousand arts. But our Lord Jesus Christ is master of a hundred thousand arts. What delusion entered the devil’s mind to make him think that he could succeed against our Lord? Perhaps he thought
Bible Text: Matthew 3:13-17 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard When the Lord and water meet, great things happen. In the beginning the earth was without form and void and covered with water. And when God spoke, a whole creation came out of that water. In the days of Noah everything
