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Listen to sermons from Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.

Dec 30, 2019

We are called to the work of Christmas, not just during this twelve-day feast but all year long. As we prepare to begin another new year and another decade, we are called anew to witness to a changed reality, to the hope that has been born in us. We are called to proclaim to the world that the darkness has not...


Dec 27, 2019

Our best attempts to have a Merry Christmas often end up like inflatable holiday lawn decorations – deflated and unplugged from the light. In a world that frightens us and causes despair, we need something more than “good cheer” because the world so often seems against us.  Hope is born when Christ is born. Hope...


Dec 23, 2019

Matthew declares that Jesus is “God with us.” But what kind of God do we get? Matthew begins to reveal the answer in the story of Joseph, a righteous, (read law-abiding) man faced with a dilemma: what to do with what appears to be an unfaithful fiancé. Listen to the law or God’s messenger who speaks to his heart?...


Dec 16, 2019

In a way, this is the very nature of discipleship. We are called to wait, to be patient until the coming of the Lord. The waiting we are called to, however, is in no way passive. We are called to strengthen our hearts, to wait with active expectation that doesn’t hesitate to ask tough questions and confront the ills...


Dec 9, 2019

Anyone else tired of the world the way it is? Anyone tired of hearing that rottenness and pain are just the way things are and won’t change? In this season of Advent we prepare for the reign of God to come and wipe away our tears; to put an end to injustice… and we, like John the Baptist, seem a little cranky about...