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Holy Trinity Ankeny

Listen to sermons from Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.

May 31, 2016

Lots of things and people occupy the center of our lives. Jobs, bosses, family, activities, recreation all become our reason for being. God becomes marginal, a mere extracurricular activity that takes a backseat to everything else. When Israel placed a false God at the center and moved the God of Abraham and Sara...


May 23, 2016

You are invited to ponder as the Psalmist did when writing Psalm 8, the grandeur of God.  We may feel small and insignificant in comparison to the vastness of all creation, yet God has made us a little lower than God.  God has given us a vocation making clear his trust in us.  Listen and ponder the abundant love and...


May 16, 2016

The story of Pentecost begins long before Pentecost. In the beginning, the divine love of the Trinity gathered together out of chaos all the fragments of creation – quarks and strings; light and energy; bits and pieces of nothing – and made it into something; made it into life itself. The story of humanity is one...


May 9, 2016

A slave girl turns out to be free while her slave owners are really bound. Prisoners end up free while the jailer is the one needing freedom. The stories in Acts 16 redefine freedom and salvation. We live in the land of the free, but few of us are really free if we are honest. Liberty and the “pursuit of happiness”...


May 3, 2016

Jesus promises that the God, through the power of the Spirit, will take up residence in and through us. Until we welcome God into our lives, like Lydia does in Acts 16, we cannot welcome others in the Spirit of love. If God really moves into your life, can you imagine what kind of luggage God brings? The promise is that...