The Hellerich Family

Grace to you and peace from God our Creator and our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Today, we are faced with some questions – because the disciples were afraid to ask. The disciples hear Jesus say that he will be betrayed and killed and rise on the third day. They didn’t understand, and they were afraid…

Sermon Pentecost 15 year B Grace to you and peace from God our Creator and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. We all have our favorite foods.  Some of us like pizzas and some of us like hamburgers. The food network has a show called “The Best Thing I Ever Ate”.  It features the…

Sermon Pentecost 14 year B Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Creator and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Rules are good.  I like rules.  They help us know if we are doing things the right way.  They help us see if the game is being played fairly.  We all want things to…

Sermon Pentecost 13 year B Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Creator and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Amen. The words from scripture present us with two choices today: wander off or abide in God. When we first hear that, we think the choice is easy, but it is not.  It…

Sermon Pentecost 12 year B Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Creator, and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. You are what you eat.  You become what you take into yourself. You become what you hear and what you believe. Remember that as you listen today. For thousands of years, people…

Dave and Carolyn visited Bethany in San Francisco July 30th-August 6th.  They helped her move from an apartment in Oakland to an apartment in San Francisco.  She lives very close to The Urban School of San Francisco where she works.  She bikes to and from school through a beautiful park.  Not too shabby! We arrived…

Sermon Pentecost 11 year B Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Creator, and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. There is a lot of complaining going on in the Bible stories we hear today.  A lot of complaining.  The word they used in the Bible meant grumbling or mumbling, or muttering under your…

Sermon Pentecost 10 year B Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Creator, and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Isn’t it frustrating when you ask someone a question and they answer a different question?  Don’t you hate that?  Politicians do it all the time.  You hope to hear a debate about the issues. …

Sermon Pentecost 9 year B Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Creator and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. They came looking for a miracle.  They received the presence of God. We have two stories in our gospel lesson today.  They are both familiar to us.  The first is the story…

Sermon Pentecost Eight year B Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Creator, and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  Amen. I went to visit my mother for her birthday a couple of weeks ago.  She lives in North Augusta, SC.  In case you are wondering, it is just as hot there as it is…