Sermon, Second Sunday of Easter - April 28, 2019

'...though Thomas receives this great blessing, we receive a greater one, according to Jesus. ‘Blessed are those who have not seen but yet have come to believe.’ This doesn’t mean that we have to make a great act of will in order to believe in Jesus. It means that God will bless, has blessed, many who have not seen him with faith in the resurrection. And that we should not worry if we have doubts, for we are just like Thomas. We can be confident that as God blessed Thomas, he will bless us with faith in his presence that overcomes doubt. Not extinguishes doubt, not represses doubt, but overcomes doubt.'

WALK FOR WATER 2019

ST. STEPHEN LUTHERAN CHURCH WALK FOR WATER

Learn more about and register here for our Walk for Water - Sunday, May 19, 2019

Water Mission website

Sermon, Easter Sunday 2019

'Our only hope is in a new world, a new world that breaks into the old one and begins to work on it from the inside. The resurrection of Jesus makes this new world a reality.'

Holy Week Services

Maundy Thursday service -
April 18, 2019, 7:30 pm

Good Friday services -
April 19, 2019,
12:30 pm and 7:30 pm

Easter Vigil -
April 20, 2019, 6:30 pm

Easter Sunday -
April 21, 2019, 10:30 am


Mercifully assist us, O Lord God of our salvation, that we may enter with joy upon the contemplation of those mighty acts whereby you have given us life everlasting; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.  

Sermon, Fifth Sunday in Lent

It is the love of Jesus which is called forth because of the love of Jesus for me. And in the love of Jesus, I am united with all the others who are lost and have been found by Jesus.

Sermon, Fourth Sunday in Lent - March 31, 2019

'Nowadays we don’t pay attention to the Pharisees and scribes. The Church has two thousand years of thinking they’re wrong, so we don’t take their concerns seriously. But we shouldn’t be so dismissive, because Jesus isn’t. Jesus listens to them, and takes them very seriously, enough to tell them these stories of the finding of the lost.'