Bible Text: Luke 18:9-14 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Trinity 2023 | Let’s be clear about what the problem is in today’s reading. When we hear the word “Pharisee” we think “bad,” and there’s reason enough for thinking it, especially in today’s reading. But let’s take his words
Bible Text: Matthew 7:15-23 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Trinity 2023 | People desire to be at peace. This is universal to man. No one loves strife, no one loves a guilty conscience, no one loves unrest. Occasionally you’ll meet someone who delights in destruction and seems to
Bible Text: Luke 14:15-24 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Trinity 2023 | The feast that God prepares is very different from the feast that Jesus was attending in the reading. Jesus was at a great supper put on by a ruler of the Pharisees. The host had invited
Bible Text: John 15:26-16:4 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Easter 2023 | On Thursday we celebrated Jesus’ Ascension into heaven, and next Sunday we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. During the ten days between Ascension and Pentecost, the apostles, the faithful women, and Jesus’
Bible Text: John 10:11-16 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Easter 2023 | This Sunday our Easter joy continues. Jesus has “abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (2 Tim. 1:10). The reading fits well with this resurrection theme, because Jesus reveals to us
Bible Text: John 18:1-19:42 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Holy Week 2023 | “For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.” Thus the Lord spoke through the prophet Isaiah. “For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.” For your transgressions Jesus was stricken. Think of that.
Bible Text: John 8:42-59 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Lent 2023 | The last two weeks of Lent are called Passiontide, which means suffering-time. This little two-week season begins today. From now until Good Friday our meditation on the Word of God is largely a meditation on the
Bible Text: Matthew 4:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Lent 2023 | Today we behold our Hero. Satan is too much for us. On earth is not his equal, and with might of ours can naught be done. We would have been forever swept along by temptation and
Bible Text: Matthew 17:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Epiphany 2023 | Jesus had begun to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again on the third day.
Bible Text: John 1:1-14 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Christmas 2022 | Glory to God in the highest, who made Himself lowest and for us men and for our salvation took the form of a slave! The Lord has fulfilled His ancient promise. The Seed of the woman
