Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon.  Gospel Reading: Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon.  Gospel Reading: Matthew 10:40-42

Third Sunday after Pentecost Sermon.  Gospel Reading: Matthew 10:24-39

Second Sunday after Pentecost Sermon.  Gospel Reading: Matthew 9:35 -- 10:8

The Holy Trinity Sermon.  Gospel Reading: Matthew 28:16-10

Day of Pentecost Sermon. Gospel Reading: John 20:19-23 Here is my sermon from this Pentecost Sunday on Race and Racism. I offer no answers, nor do I try to explain how other people feel. I only try to understand and name the racism within myself and ask for forgiveness.

Seventh Sunday of Easter.  Gospel Reading: John 17: 1-11.

Sixth Sunday of Easter. Gospel Reading: John 14:15-21 During the sermon, Pastor Tim played three well-known songs on Zoom during Online Worship. Due to copyright restrictions, we cannot play them in the podcast, and they were edited out. These songs are "Let it Be" by The Beatles, "Numb" by Linkin Park, and "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong.  If you wish to listen to these songs yourself...

Fifth Sunday of Easter sermon.  Gospel Reading: John 14:1-14

Fifth Sunday of Easter sermon.  Gospel Reading: John 14:1-14

Fourth Sunday of Easter sermon.  Gospel Reading: John 10:1-10

Fourth Sunday of Easter Sermon.  Gospel Reading: Luke 24:13-35

n today's sermon, Pastor Tim is joined by Pastor Nathan Hall of Nativity Lutheran in North Conway, NH.  It is Palm Sunday and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that we are all in the middle of, they speculate on where we have had misplaced expectations in the same way the people had misplaced expectations of Jesus when he entered Jerusalem.  As always, thanks for listening.

Fifth Sunday in Lent Sermon.  Gospel Reading: John 11:1-45 In today’s sermon, which focuses on the raising of Lazarus, Pastor Tim talks about having empathy for what other people are experiencing in their lives.  Plus, if you like Mr. Rogers’ he talks about him also.

Fourth Sunday in Lent.  Gospel Reading: John 9:1-41 Today's sermon comes to you via a Zoom worship.  In this time of the COVID-19 quarantine, Holy Trinity's worship was held online.  The part shared in this podcast is what could be called the sermon. Pastor Tim shares some thoughts on what it means to be the church and using the idea of perhaps, during this time we are able to show the world the c...

Third Sunday in Lent Sermon. Gospel Reading: John 4:5-42. In today’s sermon, the theme is “Questions.” Pastor Tim talks about how we deal with questions we have regarding the corona virus in this time of uncertainty.

Second Sunday in Lent sermon. Gospel Reading: John 3:1-17 Do you have trust issues? Want to hear about why Pastor Tim's family doesn't trust him to put air conditioner's in anymore? Wonder why God doesn't act the way we think God is supposed to? All of those questions are discussed, and more, in this week's sermon.

First Sunday in Lent Sermon, with guest preacher, Bishop James Hazelwood of the New England ELCA Synod. Gospel Reading: Matthew 4:1-11. Bishop Jim Hazelwood joined us for worship this week. He preached on the temptation of Scripture and connected it to our everyday life and the temptations we face. It was a great start to our Lenten Theme of "Everyday Spirituality." For more information on Bishop...

This is Pastor Tim's Ash Wednesday sermon.  In it, we learn his thoughts on why we burn last years palms from Palm Sunday for the ashes for Ash Wednesday.  In addition, he talks about all the places we put our hope and how they ultimately fail.  Gospel Reading: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21.

Transfiguration of our Lord Sermon.  Gospel Reading: Matthew 17:1-9 Today we welcome Pastor George to Holy Trinity as our supply Pastor, filling in for Pastor Tim. Pastor George was Holy Trinity’s interim Pastor from late 2015 – 2017.

Sixth Sunday after Epiphany sermon. Gospel Reading: Matthew 5:21-37. In the sermon this week, Pastor Tim talks about how we have a tendency to manipulate systems for our benefit. He continues by using the TV show "The Good Place" to explain how we use other people as objects, and even good deeds can be done out of the wrong motivation. A phrase to remember is that "God is not a rule follower, but...

Fifth Sunday after Epiphany. This week's sermon, the scripture comes from Matthew 5:13-20. We here words of Jesus that directly follow from last week, The Beatitudes (Blessed are they who...). Here, Pastor Tim talks about the busyness of our lives and how the church, instead of giving us one more thing to do, should instead, help us decide what we do. We can live our faith in more powerful ways th...

Fourth Sunday After Epiphany Sermon. Additionally, we've included audio from the Pastor Tim's Children's Sermon. The scripture for this week is Micah 6:8 (What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with your God) and Matthew 5:1-10 (The Beatitudes). Pastor Tim talks about all the free-floating anxiety in the world today and the big events that are about to o...

Third Sunday after Epiphany sermon. Gospel Reading: Matthew 4:12-23. In Sunday's sermon, Pastor Tim focused on the echoes of biblical stories that we might here when other biblical stories are read and then how do we here echoes of our own life story as well. What is the story that governs our life? Love? Fear? Greed? Anger? Hope?

Second Sunday after Epiphany sermon. Gospel Reading: John 1:29-42