+ A sermon for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on August 30, 2020 + Text: Romans 12:1-21 Video: https://youtu.be/9upUJP5NYGA There was a popular song that debuted the summer before I started college and I remember hearing it everywhere. My friends were playing it, it was all over the radio, it …
Category: Sermons
Ever Faithful, Ever Merciful
+ A sermon for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on August 23, 2020 + Text: Romans 11:1-2a, 29-36 Video: https://youtu.be/w-T4SUJW4Fc “In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups.” So began each episode of Law & Order, the first series in perhaps the …
Fulfilling the Law
+ A sermon for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on August 16, 2020 + Text: Romans 10:4-15 Video: https://youtu.be/2dUJKjZjO7Q Sometimes that night feels like it happened so long ago, but really it’s only been a few months. It was December 31 and as I was getting ready to celebrate the …
All-Inclusive Love
+ A sermon for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on August 9, 2020 + Text: Romans 9:1-5 Video: LINK I’ve heard this lament so many times. Sometimes from parents whose children have grown and gone their own way. Sometimes from those asking the familiar question of why Sunday morning attendance has …
Nothing
+ A sermon for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on August 2, 2020 + Text: Romans 8:26-39 Video: LINK It was a summer that forced me to expect the unexpected. It was the first summer of seminary and I was thrown into the deep end as a chaplain at a busy …
Groaning in Labor Pains
+ A sermon for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 11A/Lectionary 16A) at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on July 19, 2020 + Text: Romans 8:12-25 Video: LINK “We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now,” St. Paul writes. “And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first …
Broken Bodies, Healing Spirit
+ A sermon for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 10A/Lectionary 15A) at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on July 12, 2020 + Text: Romans 8:1-11 Video: LINK We live in a broken world. Now I don’t think that will come as a shock to any of you. I mean, the examples are all around us: virus …
The Welcome is the Reward
+ A sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8A/Lectionary 13A) at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on June 28, 2020 + Text: Matthew 10:40-42 Video: LINK When have you felt welcomed? How do you know you are welcome? Is it through the words someone has said to you? Is it through actions that you have …
I Am Sending You
+ A sermon for the Second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 6A/Lectionary 11A) at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on June 14, 2020 + Texts: Romans 5:1-8; Matthew 9:35-10:23 Video: LINK There’s no denying that the past couple weeks have been tough for many of us. We’ve watched as protests decrying the murder of George Floyd have rippled …
Breath
+ A sermon for Pentecost Sunday at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Bellevue, WA on May 31, 2020 + Texts: Acts 2:1-21, 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13, John 20:19-23 Video: LINK In the beginning, Genesis tells us, when God created the heavens and the earth, the Spirit of God moved over the waters bringing forth light and form and vegetation and …
Pastor Paul Eldred 