August 30th The Road to Self Discovery
Summary: What does it mean to take up our cross and follow Jesus? In today’s gospel lesson from Matthew, Jesus is talking about a process by which we can be reconciled to God. God does...
August 23rd: No One Can Do it For You
Summary: The gospel text for this week’s sermon is from Matthew Chapter 16, in which Jesus asks the disciples who they think he is. Pastor Dan relates this to our worries about the future, and...
August 16th: The Heart of the Matter is Faith
Summary: Pastor Dan discusses how the gospel of Matthew illustrates how Jesus taught his disciples that a clean heart should be their goal. This is more important than specific religious observances and traditions. Martin Luther...
August 9: Overcoming Fear With Faith
Summary: Pastor Dan discusses the story of Jesus walking on water. He relates this to the fears in our lives, and how our faith in Christ will allow us to overcome these fears. Sunday August...
August 2: A Means of Divine Grace
Pastor Dan discusses the story of the feeding of the five thousand by Jesus with five loaves of bread and two fish. He relates this to our practice of communion in the contemporary Christian Church....
July 26th Predestined to Become Christ-like
Sunday July 26, 2020 – The 8th Sunday after Pentecost Summary: Pastor Dan discusses the concept of predestination, as described by the Apostle Paul in the book of Romans. We are all predetermined to belong...
July 19: Preserved in Hope
Pastor Dan discusses Jesus’s parable about the coexistence of good and evil in the world, or “good seeds” and “weeds” as described in Matthew, chapter 13. As Christians we should not despair, but live in...
July 12: Faith in a Secular Age
Pastor Dan discusses how people are in search of meaning in their lives, but many do not understand the meaning of Christianity and how it relates to their lives in this secular age.
July 5 2020: Christianity and the Changing American Landscape
Pastor Dan discusses how differing views within groups of American society have divided the American people, but the constant of Christian values and our redemption through our belief in Christ should serve to unite us...
June 28: Receiving Christ; Receiving God
Pastor Dan’s sermon discusses how receiving Christ into our lives gives us the reward of God’s love, and what this means to us as Christians.