This week our scripture readings invite us to meditate on the unfathomable power of God. Simply by speaking, God creates light, matter, living creatures, and human beings in His own image. He speaks, and it is so, and it is good. And when He deigned to come down among His fallen creatures to save them, He spoke “your son shall […]

  Lutheran Essentials meets in the undercroft of the church on Wednesdays at 7pm.  You can reach the undercroft by going around to the back parking lot of the church and descending the staircase to the kitchen.  Knock on the door if it is closed and some one will let you in.  You can also join us remotely via our […]

[Picture: The Wedding Feast, by Eugene Bernand] Pastor Hopkins preached this sermon on the Twentieth Sunday After Trinity, 10/13/2019. The text for the sermon was the day’s gospel lesson. To read the Bible texts for the Twentieth Sunday After Trinity, click here. If I have any economics majors in the pews, I’ll apologize in advance. I know that this doesn’t well […]

This week we hear wisdom calling us to come and be satisfied, to eat what is good even though we have no money to buy it. Paul admonishes us not be foolish – to know God’s will. And Jesus tells a parable about having the right clothes for the wedding feast, so that we won’t be thrown out. But what […]

  Lutheran Essentials meets in the undercroft of the church on Wednesdays at 7pm.  You can reach the undercroft by going around to the back parking lot of the church and descending the staircase to the kitchen.  Knock on the door if it is closed and some one will let you in.  You can also join us remotely via our […]

[Picture: Orthodox icon of Our Savior Jesus Christ, Healing of the Paralytic, Paraletic, 14th cent., Monastery of Stavronikita, Mount Athos] Pastor Hopkins preached this sermon on the Nineteenth Sunday After Trinity, 10/6/2019. The text for the sermon was the day’s gospel lesson. To read the Bible texts for the Nineteenth Sunday After Trinity, click here. A group of men take […]