Sermon Podcast

 A Keeping of Patience Grumbling is a tried and true way of 'putting God to the test' of God's patience.  Placing life's trials and turmoils within the context of God's redeeming, refreshing, and renewing grace is to see God's hand and handiwork setting the course for our hours and days on this earth. (Exodus 17:1-11)About the Author Steve Albers is…

Out of Time The day starts and the day ends, while what happens in between subtly shapes the way we feel about our purpose, about our world, and about ourselves.  Spend a few years around calendars and clocks and we begin to imagine our life as a series of events and milestones; some beautiful and some exhausting and troubling.  This…

Why They Make Umbrellas Underneath our curiosity about the lives and spiritual well-being of others sits the treacherous road of self-reflection.  It's much more settling to wander in the curious space of hypotheticals: what God thinks about my neighbor, how proper the path of another compared to my own.  This weekend, we'll hear again the gentle reminder that we can't…

A Union of the Also-Baptized Jesus descends into the water and gives all baptism its meaning. This weekend, we'll lay claim to our own baptismal identities; unpacking the inclusion and anointing that transcends ritual.  It begins with the baptism of Jesus. (Luke 3:21-22) About the Author Josh Hatcher is a devoted husband and father, hopeless wonder-junkie, and Senior Pastor of…

Between Faith & Sentimentality It's when the sentimentality can't hold up. That's when the pressure to maintain an always-positive, always-strong, never-doubting faith becomes too much; and then what?  This Sunday, we'll find an enduring beauty in the doubt-soaked darkness that's an inevitable part of our walk with God. (Matthew 11:2-15) About the Author Josh Hatcher is a devoted husband and…

About the Author Steve Albers is a devoted husband, father and grandfather, and Associate Pastor of Historic Trinity Lutheran Church - an open and caring, radically Christ-centered, deeply sacramental and sometimes eclectic ministry in the heart of the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis.   Like on Facebook   Follow on Twitter   Follow on Instagram

Religion Through the Window At last, the prophet begins to wrestle with his own religious system.  Behind the drive for divine truth and a Biblical worldview, the real goal of a spiritual life is ultimately our own re-alignment to God. Anything short of that is mythology, magic, maybe even idolatry. This weekend, we'll stare through the window of our religious…

As Gently Fall the Leaves Our campus is lined with trees that will outlive all of us. These deeply-rooted watchtowers that remind us how young we really are; this 180-year-old campus of a two-thousand-year-old church. This weekend, we stand as we ever have, looking always forward into the next thousand years of ministry.  This Mother Church has a role to…