+ A sermon for Christmas Eve at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on December 24, 2020 + Text: Luke 2:1-20 Video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q094OoE90EQ “I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy. I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel.” That’s the opening line to the 1965 classic …
Category: Sermons
An Impossible “Yes”
+ A sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year B) at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on December 20, 2020 + Text: Luke 1:26-38, Luke 1:46-55 Video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/9fZU4uewH_I Did you ever pass notes in school? Maybe in middle school or high school you wrote something on a piece of paper and folded it up to …
Who Are You?
+ A sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent (Year B) at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on December 13, 2020 + Text: John 1:6-8, 19-28 Video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/fIOYwWAoLdk ‘You never get a second chance to make a good first impression,’ they say. Perhaps that’s why I sometimes struggle with how to act when I meet …
Come Down Already!
+ A sermon for the First Sunday of Advent (Year B) at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on November 29, 2020 + Text: Isaiah 64:1-9; Mark 13:24-37 Video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/847YV8nTvj0 Way back in March, I wrote a letter to our congregation announcing that we would be canceling in-person worship until further notice. I remember expressing my hope …
A Wild and Precious Gift
+ A sermon for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on November 15, 2020 + Text: Matthew 25:14-30 Video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/39j2gMnZy2c “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Have you ever heard that quote before? Those words by the late poet Mary Oliver …
Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters
+ A sermon for the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on November 8, 2020 + Text: Amos 5:18-24, Matthew 25:1-13 Video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/rr-WENr4RVA There’s a scene from a movie that’s been playing in my head for over a week now. It’s from the second film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy …
Trick Questions and True Allegiance
+ A sermon for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on October 18, 2020 + Text: Matthew 22:15-22 Video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/LROfsDQGUIo It’s almost over, my friends. We’re just over two weeks away from finishing perhaps the longest, most polarizing election season ever. By now, millions of people have already voted and, here …
A Wedding and the Kingdom
+ A sermon for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on October 11, 2020 + Texts: Isaiah 25:1-9, Matthew 22:1-4 Video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/0xDk6ENv74U I want you to do me a quick favor. I want you to think back to the last time you were invited to a wedding. And yes, I know …
The Mind of Christ
+ A sermon for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on September 27, 2020 + Text: Philippians 2:1-13, Matthew 21:23-32 Video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/7WdGnH0p8n0 The battle lines have been drawn and redrawn yet again this week. Divisions in this country separating us based on our reaction to the decision of the grand jury …
Finding Hope in the Cross
+ A sermon for Holy Cross Sunday at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on September 13, 2020 + Texts: Revelation 22:1-5; 1 Corinthians 1:18-24; John 12:31-36a Video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/_qYVQiUP0FI “Our streetlamps were still on at 10:00 am, the smoke was completely blocking out the sun.” That’s what I heard from a Facebook friend in the Bay …
Pastor Paul Eldred 