The Church reserves September 29 as the feast of St. Michael and All Angels (commonly called "Michaelmas"). In 2019, that day falls on a Sunday, and so First Lutheran Church will celebrate the feast with all the grandeur and majesty befitting Christ and His holy angels. Christians may be tempted to overlook the angels, given that popular culture treats them [...]

What (or whom) do we love most? Like most Sunday school children, we know what the answer should be: Jesus! But we are often far more wrapped up in ourselves than anything else. Like children who have to be reminded to say “thank you” or like 9 out of the 10 lepers healed by Jesus, we love the gifts and […]

  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: Good Samaritan, by Olga Bakhtina (Rus., 2016)] Pastor Hopkins preached this sermon on the Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity, 9/15/2019. The text for the sermon was the day’s gospel lesson. To read the Bible texts for the Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity, click here. The parable of the Good Samaritan might be the most familiar of all the parables, and there’s […]

The readings for the thirteenth Sunday after Trinity tell us a story of mercy. God mercifully gave the Israelites a chance to repent of their sin of taking the people of Judah to be slaves, and they in turn had mercy on those they had captured. Jesus tells the parable of the good Samaritan, who had mercy on a stranger […]

  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 […]