+ A sermon for the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on February 16, 2020 + Text: Deuteronomy 30:15-31:3a; Matthew 5:21-37 Audio: LINK It had taken them forty years to arrive. Forty years since they had crossed the Red Sea into freedom. Forty years since Moses came down from the Mount …
Month: February 2020
Be What You Are
+ A sermon for the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on February 9, 2020 + Text: Isaiah 58:1-12; Matthew 5:13-20 Audio: LINK “I’m not sure that you’re Princeton material,” she said with a patronizing smile.[1] These dismissive words from her high school guidance counselor could have easily devastated the hopes …
Holding the Promise
+ A sermon for the Presentation of Our Lord at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on February 2, 2020 + Text: Luke 2:22-40 Audio: LINK Well my friends, we did it—we’ve made it to February. I don’t know about you, but January seemed impossibly long this year. Maybe it was the now more than two …
Pastor Paul Eldred 