Christmass Day | 25 December 2023 | John 1:1-14 | Brad Everett | As we begin the celebration of the feast of Christmass, these next 12 days give us an opportunity to consider and commemorate that God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, beginning with the passage from today’s gospel….
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The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost | 19 November 2023 | Matthew 25:14-30 | Brad Everett | Today’s gospel text is the next of Jesus’ parables concerning the Kingdom of Heaven as recorded in St. Matthew’s gospel. Jesus told these to his disciples, in his last week with them, so there is a noticeable sense of…
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Thanksgiving Sunday | October 8, 2023 | Luke 17:11-19 | Brad Everett | Our gospel for this Thanksgiving Sunday begins with 10 lepers approaching Jesus as he enters a village. The 10 keep the appropriate distance from our Lord which was important, because leprosy was and is a highly contagious disease, and avoiding contact with someone infected…
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5th Sunday a. Pentecost | 07/02/23 | Matthew 10:40-42 | Brad Everett | You’re not on your own. That’s the essence of the three verses Jesus concludes his instructions to the disciples with before sending them out. You’re not on your own. A cliched phrase perhaps, but it can mean the world to someone venturing into uncharted territory…
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Ascension | 05/18/2023 | Luke 24:44-53; Ephesians 1:15-23; Acts 1: 1-11 | Brad Everett | The feast of the Ascension, commemorating Jesus’ return to heaven, is one of the four major feasts marking events in the life of Christ (his birth at Christmas, death on Good Friday and Resurrection at Easter being the other three),…
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Easter Vigil | April 8, 2023 | Jh 20:1-18 | Brad Everett | Easter Vigil reminds us that Jesus shows up. Not necessarily how, when or where we had expected, but he shows up. The uncertainty of how, when and where is often a case of misunderstanding, or misplaced expectations. How many times did Jesus…
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The Third Sunday after Epiphany | 01/22/2023 | Psalm 27 | Brad Everett Epiphany’s image of Jesus Christ as the light of God in the darkness is an apt one for those of us living farther north, as we track the lengthening days, looking forward to the coming of Spring. We know the difference light can make to…
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The Feast of All Saints | 06.11.22 | Luke 6:20-31 | Brad Everett | “I believe in the communion of saints”, we confess together regularly when we reach the Apostles’ Creed in the liturgy.But what does that mean, ‘the communion of saints’, especially as we celebrate the feast of All Saints?Well, at the risk of stating what…
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Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost | September 18, 2022 | 1 Timothy 2.1-7 | Brad Everett | Paul’s First letter to Timothy has kind of a ‘nuts and bolts’ practicality to it. There is lots of advice on concrete situations such as ‘here’s what to do when you encounter this particular circumstance’ and not necessarily a…
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8h Sunday a. Pentecost | 07/31/22 | Luke 12:13-21; Eccles 1:2, 12-14, 2:18-23; Col. 3:1-11 | Brad Everett | “Vanity of vanities, All is vanity” or another way of translating the opening verses of Ecclesiastes is, “Meaningless, meaningless, utterly meaningless” Not exactly “feel-good” verses for a summer Sunday morning, but better to face these truths…
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2nd Sunday a. Pentecost | 06/19/22 | Sermon on Luke 8:26-39 | Brad Everett | One could be inclined to see today’s gospel primarily as a story about power and authority. That is, to read it as a narrative of battle between Jesus and the demons. Which of course is understandable. Jesus arrives on the…
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4th Sunday of Easter | 05/08/22 | Sermon on John 10:22-30 | By Brad Everett | Listening to and listening ‘for’ Jesus that we might hear him is not an occasional thing—something we do once in a while when we need a little bit of extra help in sorting out a situation or resolving a…
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Palm Sunday | April 10, 2022 | Lk 19:28-40; 22:14—23:56 | Brad Everett | As Jesus rode the colt into Jerusalem on a make-shift saddle of his disciples’ cloaks, the donkey’s feet never touched the road, as others in the crowd spread their cloaks in his path in honor of his arrival. He entered the…
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Feast of the Transfiguration | 02/27/22 | Sermon on Luke 9:28-45 | by Brad Everett | This morning’s gospel begins eight days after Peter’s confession of Jesus as “The Christ of God”, and Jesus’ first teaching the disciples what being the Christ means for him i.e. that he must suffer many things and be rejected…
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The Baptism of our Lord, 01/09/2022 | Sermon on Luke 3:5-22 | by Brad Everett | Today is the feast of the baptism of our Lord. To avoid any misunderstanding, Jesus was not baptized for his sake but for ours. The baptism offered by John in the wilderness of the Jordan River was a sign…
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Third Sunday of Advent 12/12/21 | Sermon on Luke 3:7-18; Phil. 4:4-7; Isaiah 12:2-6; Zeph. 3:14-20 | By Brad Everett | This third Sunday of Advent is often referred to as Joy Sunday or Gaudete Sunday (which is Latin for “rejoice”). Coming near the longest night of the year, it serves to remind us that…
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Reformation Day 10/31/21 | Sermon on John 8:31-36 | By Brad Everett | Today in the Lutheran church calendar is Reformation Day. That festival where we commemorate Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, which many mark as the beginning of the Reformation. It was never Luther’s…
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September 19, Pentecost 17, Proper 20 | Mark 9:30-37 | by Evan McClanahan | In the 5th grade, I played football. It may surprise you to learn that I was one of the fastest players on the team. In a big game in a big moment against our fiercest rival, the First Baptist Patriots, I…
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16th Sunday a. Pentecost 16 09/12/21 | Sermon on James 3:1-12 | by Brad Everett | Most of us are familiar with the saying “talk is cheap”, which suggests that words and deeds are two very different things. That what really matters are actions not words—a popular and commonly accepted view in our culture. But…
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9th Sunday a. Pentecost | 07/25/21 | Sermon on John 6: 1-21; 2 Kings4:42-44; Eph. 3:14-21 | by Brad Everett | The lectionary this Sunday presents us with two stories of miraculous feedings. The first is from the Old Testament and tells how a man from Baal-shalishah brought the first fruits from the harvest to…
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6 June 2021 | Psalm 130 | by Brad Everett | The prayer of Psalm 130 has been on the lips of the faithful for literally millennia, as successive generations took advantage of these verses to give voice to their prayers and petitions, as they sought to take hold of and give voice to the promises…
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1 John 3:16-24; John 10:11-18; Psalm 23 | by Brad Everett | Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd. There are few texts as delightful to preach on or to hear sermons on, as those with this theme. This morning we are blessed with two of the preeminent Good Shepherd texts, Psalm 23 and John 10. The…
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First Sunday after Christmas 27 December 2020 | Sermon on Luke 2:22-40 | By Brad Everett | There is much of the miraculous in today’s gospel lesson. Simeon, a man righteous and devout, on whom the Holy Spirit rested, is guided by that same Spirit to the temple so God’s promise that he would not…
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Sermon on Matthew 1:18-25, by Brad Everett St. Matthew’s gospel records three angelic encounters St. Joseph had in dreams. We find the first one in today’s gospel. Mary is engaged to Joseph, but before they live together she is found with child. Joseph is a righteous man—thus he decided to dismiss Mary, (because it…
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Sermon on Matthew 25:31-46 | By Brad Everett | Today is Christ the King Sunday, which marks the last Sunday of the church year as we prepare for a new year next week with the beginning of Advent. Christ the King Sunday is a relatively new feast day, established in the 1920s by…
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Sermon on Phil. 3:4b-14 | By Brad Everett| Because we live in a fallen and sinful world it’s not a question of ‘if’ we are going to suffer, but ‘when’. Connected with ‘when’ is the related question of ‘how’ are we going to suffer. Not ‘how’ in the sense of what sort…
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Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost – 16 August 2020 | Sermon on Matthew 15:10-28 | by Brad Everett | In this morning’s gospel lesson, Jesus has gone another round with the Pharisees. In the preceding verses, they came to him concerned that the disciples weren’t following the tradition of the elders – they weren’t washing their…
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3rd Sunday a. Pentecost – 21 June 2020 | Sermon on Matthew 10:24-39 | by Brad Everett | “Don’t be afraid”. Like every other commandment of our Lord, it’s given to us as a blessing, but just like every other blessing, we have a hard time receiving it let alone keeping it. Jesus uses some…
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Fourth Sunday of Easter – May 3,2020 | Sermon on Psalm 23; John 10:1-10 | by Pr. Brad Everett | Psalm 23 is one of the most familiar passages of Holy Scripture. You’ve heard it in church when it came up in the lessons, sung it as a hymn, possibly read it for yourself when…
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Fifth Sunday After Epiphany | Sermon on Matthew 5:13-20, by Brad Everett | It’s early in Jesus’ ministry and his time with the disciples. He’s called them from their various places and they have followed him, all around Galilee, listening to him teach and preach in the synagogues and watched him heal every disease and…
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