ST.PAUL'S EVANGE
  • Home
  • Online Giving
  • Food Pantry
  • News
  • Contact Us
  • Worship
  • Sunday School

"...so we, who are many,
are one body in Christ."

What Is Healing for?

2/5/2018

0 Comments

 

Sermon for Epiphany 5

Love and serve all people following the example of Jesus Christ.
Mark 1:29-39


Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.


As we start to live and act as Jesus’ disciples we discover that Jesus leads us to speak with grace and to act out of love. That, I suppose, was central to his teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum that we’ve been reading about these past few weeks. It begins with hearing God’s word and promise -- the good news of God’s kingdom — and responding with faith and trust in God and God’s will and purposes. The first expressive response of faith is simply getting up and following Jesus.

That is as good an entry into reading a Gospel, like the Gospel of Mark, as there might be. When we read the Gospel we follow Jesus — hear what he says, see what he does — understanding that this is to strengthen our faith and kindle our love and to serve as a guide for what will be our words and actions.

Read More
0 Comments

Sermon for Fourth Sunday After Epiphany

2/2/2018

0 Comments

 

Share the good news ... in word and deed!

Mark 1:21-28
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

The gift of God in Jesus Christ is so truly amazing that it seems almost unbelievable that people would find it offensive.

The grace we receive in the Gospel is the gift of a relationship with God that sustains us in this life and through death to an eternal life. This relationship with God is a gift that gives our life purpose, meaning and direction. In accordance with God’s will and God’s purposes, it is a gift that sets us free, truly free, to live as God’s children, whole and well in God’s praise. And so it seems almost incomprehensible that this word, this grace, this promise would evoke such violent reactions and responses in the hearts of the very people it sets out to love, save and bless.

Read More
0 Comments

Funeral Sermon for Ursula Mihalak

2/1/2018

0 Comments

 

Behold! I Make All Things New

​Grace and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

This is a night to remember Ursula. Even though remembering makes us feel the sadness of Ursula’s absence, it also keeps her present and part of our lives. Our memories of Ursula can be expressions the love we had and shared together, and so, those memories are simultaneously painful and happy. There are other memories there as well, I am sure. Maybe memories that fill us not so much with love as with regret or guilt or shame. These too are part of the reckoning me all must do at the end of something, a settling of accounts, so to speak. That is why a service such as this reminds us that we will be okay, and that we will not have to bear the full weight of our mourning or grief all by ourselves, but that Jesus himself bears that weight with us and for us so that we might remember love, receive forgiveness and pardon, and live on in hope of the new thing that God Himself is revealing in the world.

Read More
0 Comments

    News

    The latest news, sermons and commentary on our life in mission together.

    Archives

    May 2021
    February 2021
    November 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    November 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    November 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    September 2016
    June 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    December 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    May 2011

    Categories

    All
    Newsletter Articles
    Pastor's Message
    Reports
    Sermons

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Online Giving
  • Food Pantry
  • News
  • Contact Us
  • Worship
  • Sunday School