The Hellerich Family

Ascension Sunday, Year B Grace, mercy, and peace to you from our risen and ascended Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Today we are celebrating the feast of the ascension.  The stories about our risen Christ ascending into heaven are recorded by Luke, both in his gospel and the Book of Acts, which is really the second…

Sermon Easter 6 B Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and our Savior and Friend, Jesus Christ. Amen. Jesus has chosen us to be his friends.  He explains what that means to us in simple terms.  When we are his friends we will love him and keep his commandments. Loving Jesus…

Sermon Easter 5 year B Grace, mercy, and peace from our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  Amen. We are connected with people in a lot of different ways. We are connected through email and through Facebook and through Linked In and Twitter.  We can send out messages to hundreds of people very quickly.  We…

This morning, Sunday, April 29, 2012, the congregation of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Nebraska, voted unanimously to extend a call to Carolyn Hellerich!   More information about the ordination to come soon. Thanks be to God!

Easter 4- Year B,  Good Shepherd Sunday Grace, mercy, and peace to you from our Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ.  Amen. The twenty-third psalm is probably one of the most familiar passages of scripture.  Many of you may have it memorized.  I know it was one of the passages I memorized when I was in Sunday…

The Third Sunday of Easter Grace, mercy, and peace from our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  Amen. “Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed.” We were all adopted as God’s children in our baptism.  Most of us were very young so our parents and sponsors or…

Grace, mercy, and peace from our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  Amen. The Sunday after Easter we always read the “Doubting Thomas” story.  We  remember Thomas as the disciple who wasn’t with the others that first resurrection evening when Jesus came into the locked room.  On that first visit Jesus showed the disciples the…

Mark 16: Alleluia! Christ is Risen! Christ is Risen indeed! Alleluia! Did you notice that today’s gospel reading has both a shorter and a longer ending?  All of the oldest manuscripts have the shorter ending.  Check your Bibles when you get home and you will find lots of footnotes about this. Verse eight isn’t a…

Alleluia! Christ is Risen! Christ is Risen Indeed! Alleluia! Tonight is the night! We hear stories about light and fire and water.  These elements have always been critical to human life.  Without them we cannot live. With them, God blesses us and saves us. When scientists try to determine if there can be life like…

Grace, mercy and peace to you from the God who died for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The story we read tonight is for you. In the story of Jesus’ passion and death there are many complications and seeming contradictions. Things are the opposite of the way they should be. If your life is…