Saint Paul’s Sermons

Saint Patrick's story inspires us believers to join in fulfilling the Great Commission of Jesus in chapter 28 of Matthew's Gospel, to go out into the world to make disciples, teaching them all of Christ's truth.

The Gospel today from Chapter 4 of Matthew tells us how immediately after his baptism, after he is declared to be God's son by the audible voice of God himself, the Holy Spirit compels Jesus into the wilderness for a time of deprivation and testing. This crucial scripture shows how the New Adam meets the test the old Adam failed, and thus embarks on the path of a perfectly righteous life that...

As we celebrate the baptism of a new believing member of the church, Father Andrew speaks to the history and significance of Christian baptism.

The latest survey by the Barna organization shows that only 46% of persons responding believe in one supreme being who created and reigns over everything (see Genesis 1:1), reflecting a sad downward trend heavily influenced by scientism and cultish rejection of supernatural influence. More disturbing, only 72% of those surveyed who profess to be "born again" Christians affirmed belief in...

All of us are sinners. We share a fallen human nature. We sin BECAUSE we are sinners. It comes naturally. But Christianity contains the remedy.

Making New Year's Resolutions is a tradition that many of us enjoy, though those resolutions often don't last. But what about focusing this year on resolutions based in the Bible and our Christian prayer life!

Matthew's Gospel gives us the account of the return of the Holy Family from Egypt after the death of King Herod, resulting in their resettling in Nazareth. As Matthew shows, this is fulfilled prophecy, the continued progress of God's plan and purpose for his people, and further evidence Jesus is the Messiah

Relfections on the Gospel for today, and on Joseph's faithfulness in the face of an inexplicable miracle.

The Christian message we receive in this time of Advent is unique among all the other world views and religious expressions. Only Christianity provides a remedy for our personal sins and guilt. Only Christianity provides a sure hope for our eternal future. Other world religions do not lay claim to a divine foundation at all like Christianity, with one almighty God who deigns to become one with his...

This is the first Sunday in (not of) Advent, the season in which we prepare for the birth of the Messiah through anticipation and penitential reflection on our own spiritual state.

Chapter 13 of Matthew's Gospel is full of parables of Jesus teaching about the Kingdom of God, usually beginning with the words, "The Kingdom of God is like." The parable of the wheat and the weeds at vv. 24-30 talks about how in the church and in this life the wicked and the righteous are growing up together until the final judgment of God. Tares, or darnel, looks like wheat, but it is poisonous....

In the Gospel of Saint Matthew, we have the dual narrative of the healing miracles of Jesus for the synagogue ruler whose daughter had died and the severely afflicted woman who had suffered twelve years with a hemorrhage (Matthew 9:18-26). In fact, chapter 9 is full of miracles of healing, by which Jesus extended God's mercy to those afflicted but also, and more importantly, showed his own divine...

Saints aren't just the best or holiest people. Saints are people who place their faith and trust in Jesus Christ.

Jesus taught us to love our enemies and to forgive those who wrong us, even to seventy times seven times.

Why is Christianity the Good News? Scripture and the 39 Articles of Religion show us that in our natural state we are enemies of God. We want to go our own way. We are "dead" in our trespasses and sinful choices unless God intervenes. That's the bad news, and the good news is God has indeed intervened in the person and work of Jesus Christ. By trusting faith in him, and in him alone, we can become...

The parable of Jesus recorded for us in Chapter 22 of Matthew's Gospel, the parable of a wedding banquet, fully encapsulates the Christian Gospel. When those invited fail to come, the King sends out his servants into the world to bring in people called and chosen for the Kingdom of God. They are called as a free gift of the King. They are clothed by faith in the proper wedding garments, just as we...

The terrible storm and flooding that hit our country, in tandem with the warfare and violence afflicting Israel and the Mid East, bring deep sorrow and pain to our hearts. Our response should be sincere and energetic prayer for those matters and all afflicted by them.

Jesus's healing of the palsied man shows the miraculous power to God to heal. Beyond medical science and beyond personality, God's power heals the soul.

September 29 is a day marked for honoring Saint Michael the archangel. Saint Michael is a warrior angel who led the defeat of Satan in the celestial battle between the forces of cosmic rebellion and the beings loyal to God. Father Andrew speaks to this and to the many ways in which Angles act for God and minister to us.

In Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis had a chapter on Pride, what he calls "The Great Sin," the sin that underlies all other sins like a poison. Jesus repeatedly shamed the proud and in the Gospel of today from Saint Luke declares that those who exalt themselves will be brought low and it is the humble will be exalted before God

Saint Paul cautions us about "being the right way" and "doing the right things" without doing them from the right motives, motives of agape love for one another.

Today's Gospel lesson speaks to the requirement that we love our neighbor as ourselves. Many passages of scripture talk about the love of God, and our duty to love one another. In modern culture it's not so much God is love, as "love is God, a distortion of the biblical picture of love.

The Gospel account of Jesus' miraculous healing of the man who was deaf and of impaired speech inspires us with the calling to reach out to others.

As Christians we are called to see those around us who need to hear about Jesus.

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." Ps 46 The Psalms are a great source of comfort and assurance, a place of peace and quiet. Pray the Psalms and find peace.