Sermon: Psalm 1 Epiphany 6 – February 17, 2019 – Rev. Steven J. Radunzel If you listen carefully to news reports and the comments that guests make on the various news shows, you’ll begin to hear certain words that seem to become rather trendy, sometimes to the point of being
Continue readingSermon: Luke 5:1-11 Epiphany 5 – February 10, 2019 – Rev. Steven J. Radunzel Some years ago I read an interview given by the founder of a large campus ministry. He was a conservative, Bible-believing preacher of the gospel. He was in his 80’s and nearing the end of his
Continue readingSermon: 1 Corinthians 12:27-13:13 Pentecost 4 – February 3, 2019 – Rev. Steven J. Radunzel Spiritual gifts are those gifts, abilities, strengths, that God gives to believers in Jesus Christ which they can then use to teach, build up, and encourage other Christians, and in that way help build the
Continue readingSermon: Luke 4:14-21 Epiphany 3 – January 27, 2019 – Rev. Steven J. Radunzel If you could go back to a time in your life when you think life was better and you may have been happier, what would that time be? Some of you might want to go back
Continue readingSermon: 1 Samuel 16:1-13 Epiphany 1 – January 13, 2019 – Rev. Steven J. Radunzel Have you ever had an experience in life in which you just knew for sure that God was dealing with you personally, that God was doing something in your life, that God was blessing you,
Continue readingSermon: Hebrews 4:9-16 Pentecost 22 – October 21, 2018 – Rev. Steven J. Radunzel When I was young my parents brought my brothers and sister and me to church every Sunday. We really did go to church every Sunday. That’s why it was very unusual one summer Sunday, when I
Continue readingSermon: Numbers 11:16, 24-29 Pentecost 19 – September 30, 2018 – Rev. Steven J. Radunzel We all know what job security is. Anyone who has the responsibility to support him or herself, and especially someone who has the added responsibility of supporting a whole family, knows very well what job
Continue readingJames 2:1-5, 8-10, 14-18 Pentecost 17 – September 16, 2018 – Rev. Steven J. Radunzel Some of you have perhaps seen the commercial on television where a husband and wife, looking very tired from lack of sleep, open their medicine cabinet to find a man standing on the other side
Continue readingActs 1:15-26 Pentecost 16 Earlier this summer I attended the ordination and installation service of William Schubert as the pastor of our sister congregation Heritage Lutheran in Lindenhurst. Pastor Schubert is a 2018 graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, WI and was assigned a call as the pastor of
Continue readingJohn 14:21-23 Pentecost 15 Ever since 9/11 we have become increasingly aware of the names of militant Islamic groups that are not our friends. Al Quida was one of the first names we learned. In the last two or three years we’ve heard too many times the name ISIS which
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