Sermons (Page 2)
Transfiguration of Our Lord
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Vicar Sarah Freyermuth February 15, 2026 During Youth Group a few weeks ago, we were watching a video that talked about how important it is that Jesus came to the world as a poor baby from Bethlehem, which the video jokingly and not-so-nicely referred to as a “backwater of a backwater town in those days.” And after the video, I asked the youth why they thought it mattered that Jesus came to us in this form,…
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
In last week’s gospel, we heard the Beatitudes where Jesus blessed the poor in spirit, the grieving, and the persecuted. In today’s reading, that story continued as he looked at the crowd and said, “You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world.” And in English it can sound like Jesus is pointing at individuals – you are salt, and you are light. But in the original Greek, that “you” is plural. So, it actually reads as: you all are salt. Y’all are light. He didn’t say try to become salt and light; rather, it was a declaration about a people that were formed together…
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Vicar Sarah Freyermuth February 1, 2026 Our Gospel passage today is the beginning of the most famous sermon of all time: The Sermon on the Mount, the first of Jesus’ teaching. Pastor Jason and I joked a few months ago that sometimes we’re tempted instead of preaching to just read the Gospel again and sit down, because there’s nothing we can say that says it better than Jesus himself. So with that I’ll head out. No…