The Hellerich Family

The Fourth Sunday After Epiphany – Year B Grace, mercy, and peace to you from almighty God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. In today’s gospel lesson, Jesus performs an exorcism.  The gospel writers lived in pre-scientific times, so it is tempting to explain this away.  After all, most biblical descriptions of demon possession look […]

Sermon for Epiphany III – Year B Grace, mercy, and peace from the God who calls us all.  Amen. Did you ever wonder about Zebedee?  The father of James and John, left standing in the boat?  As a parent, I wonder what it was like for him. Mark writes the gospel story as if he […]

Second Sunday after Epiphany – Year B Grace, mercy, and peace to you – from the God who calls us all. When we are picking someone for an important job, we look for the most qualified person.  Ideally, we find someone who is already experienced, who will work for whatever we can pay.  We want […]

The Baptism of our Lord – Year B God doesn’t send us anywhere, to do anything, without blessing us first! This weekend, we begin our celebration of the season of Epiphany.   It is probably my favorite season of the church year. I like Epiphany because it is the time when God is most clearly […]

Welcome to 2012, a brand new year!  We pray for so many things to happen in the year ahead, including: –  Carolyn’s ordination!                                                                 […]

Sermon Christmas I – Year B New Years Eve and Day Merry Christmas!  Tomorrow/today is the eighth day of Christmas, so that greeting is still appropriate.  And tonight/today we have another opportunity to sing some carols before we put them away until next Christmas Eve. It is of course also appropriate to wish you a […]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Some news since last Christmas: Carolyn is serving as an interim minister at St. Mark’s Lutheran in St. Paul, Nebraska.  After completing her internship at Frieden’s Lutheran here in Lincoln, she volunteered at Tabitha throughout the summer.  She graduated with a Master of Divinity degree in May from the […]

Sermon for Christmas Day, 2011 Dear friends in Christ, grace to you and peace…especially peace…on this day of our Savior’s birth. Amen. Well, the time has finally arrived. Our days of watching and waiting and preparing are finally over, and today the celebration begins. If it’s not purchased or packed or wrapped or baked or […]

Sermon for Christmas Eve, 2011 Luke 2:1-20 A child changes everything. Grace to you and peace from our newborn Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. This is a familiar story to most of us.  We love to hear it every year on Christmas eve. In our minds we paint a beautiful picture like the children’s pageant this […]

Sermon Advent IV – Year B St. Mark’s Lutheran Church Children’s Christmas Program   Do you believe God is still active in the world? Do you remember that Bette Midler song, “From a Distance”? God is watching us, God is watching us, from a distance, God is watching us. I suspect many people have a […]