Sermons

Acts 9:1-20   Psalm 30   Revelation 5:11-14   John 21:1-19 Rev. Dr. Warner Bailey May 5, 2019 Why is worship so scary?  Why is a community at… Read More »Why Is Worship So Scary?

Sermon at St. Stephen Second Sunday of Easter Texts: Acts 5:27-32 Rev. 1:4-8 John 20:19-31 Rev. Wayne Menking The readings from Acts and the Gospel… Read More »Behind Locked Doors

A Tale of Two Tombs By Rev. Dr. Fritz Ritsch Easter Sunday 2019 Luke 24: 1-12 In 1977, a brutal military junta controlled the South… Read More »A Tale of Two Tombs

By Rev. Dr. Fritz Ritsch Maundy Thursday, 2019 Mark 14: 53-72 Our gospel lesson is a story of two trials. One is the trial of… Read More »In the Courtroom; In the Courtyard

By Rev. Dr. Fritz Ritsch April 7, 2019 John 12: 1-8 I became a Christian at age 14, and I like to tell people that… Read More »The Prophet Mary of Bethany

By Rev. Dr. Fritz Ritsch St. Stephen Presbyterian Church March 31, 2019 Luke 15: 1-3, 11-32 I suppose most of us have at some level followed… Read More »Both/And

By Rev. Dr. Fritz Ritsch St. Stephen Presbyterian Church March 24, 2019 Isaiah 55: 1-9 Lots of good news at St. Stephen recently. Last year… Read More »Abundance

Faith and Action, Truth and Goodness By Rev. Dr. Fritz Ritsch March 17, 2019 Luke 13:31-35 “In AD 203, a young Roman matron, Perpetua, was… Read More »

By Rev. Dr. Fritz Ritsch February 24, 2019 Luke 6; 27-38 “Do not judge.” We hear it a lot and we always have. And yet… Read More »Why Love?

Our Just Desserts by Rev. Dr. Fritz Ritsch Luke 6: 17-26   If there is a refrain that describes the last few years, it is… Read More »Our Just Desserts