Trinity Lutheran Elkhart Homilies

Lent 3: Sacrifice: Body (feat. Pr. Mielke) 04.03.2024 14:51 ↓

Your body is the Temple, a temple - where God dwells. So sacrifice your body - give the gift of yourself. 

Lenten Midweek 2: (UN)SACRIFICED: Herod - Loses Status (feat. Pr. Mielke) 29.02.2024 11:48 ↓

Do the opinions and approval of certain people matter more to me than what God thinks of me? If He mattered most, how might this liberate me?

Lent 2: Sacrifice: Treasure (feat. Pr. Vieth) 26.02.2024 14:56 ↓

Today Jesus is giving you and me, Abraham and Isaac, Peter and the disciples, and the whole church catholic a test: will we choose God or will we choose the treasures of God? Too often we choose the treasures of God because we think they’ll relieve our anxiety and worry and give us security. The truth is, though, that that is far from the truth. The more we try and hoard our treasures, the more wo...

Lent 1: Sacrifice: Comfort (feat. Pr. Mielke) 19.02.2024 14:21 ↓

Our theme for Lent this year is “Sacrifice.” Sacrifice is natural to humans - because love sacrifices and humans are made to love - just like God. We see his love above all in his sacrifice. Which calls us to respond in the same.  This week we are called to sacrifice our comfort. Because comfort makes us believe we are in control. But ironically, comfort begins to control us as we want more and mo...

Ash Wednesday: The Sacrifices of God (feat. Pr. Mielke) 19.02.2024 8:39 ↓

Our theme for Lent this year is “Sacrifice.” We begin our journey on Ash Weds with this invitation:  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. 

Transfiguration: Seeing Jesus Only (feat. Pr. Vieth) 12.02.2024 16:48 ↓

Transfiguration Sunday February 11, 2023

Ordinary 5: 150 and Beyond: For Our World (feat. Pr. Vieth) 05.02.2024 15:36 ↓

February 4, 2024

Ordinary 4: 150 and Beyond: For His Glory (feat. Pr. Mielke) 28.01.2024 15:02 ↓

For His Glory is why we built our beautiful church. But For His Glory is why we live. Those 3 words become the measure of our lives. God does not need us to give him glory. But he gives his glory to us so that we can enjoy him and be all that he made us to be - full of his glory. 

Ordinary 3: 150 and Beyond: For the Next Generation (feat. Pr. Mielke) 23.01.2024 13:24 ↓

January 21, 2024 As Jesus calls his first disciples, he tasks parents to form them as His disciples. Our Lutheran School extends this holy calling. 

Ordinary 2: Baptized for Us (feat. Pr. Vieth) 20.01.2024 15:09 ↓

January, 14, 2024

Epiphany: What Star are You Following? (Pastor Schallhorn) 07.01.2024 22:01 ↓

January 7, 2024

Holy Family: Parenting a Holy Family (feat. Pr. Mielke) 02.01.2024 17:24 ↓

December 30/31, 2023

Advent 4: Nothing is Impossible with God (feat. Pr. Mielke) 29.12.2023 6:41 ↓

December 24, 2023 10AM.  Advent Lessons and Carols Service

Christmas Eve: Draw Yourself In (feat. Pr. Vieth) 29.12.2023 15:17 ↓

December 24, 2023 7PM Christmas Eve Service

Christmas Day: Does God Have Anything to Say? (feat. Pr. Mielke) 29.12.2023 10:21 ↓

December 25, 2023 Christmas Day 10AM Service

Advent 3: Get Out of the Way (feat. Pr. Vieth) 18.12.2023 16:29 ↓

December 17, 2023

Advent 2: Prepare! For What? (feat. Pr. Schallhorn) 10.12.2023 17:24 ↓

December 10, 2023

Advent 1. "Time. Counted or Consecrated?" (feat. Pr. Mielke) 04.12.2023 15:25 ↓

Advent 1 & Opening of Trinity's 150th Jubilee Anniversary. December 3, 2023

Ord. 34: You Did it to Me (feat. Pr. Vieth) 26.11.2023 11:54 ↓

November 26, 2023

Ordinary 33: What are you doing with what you've got? (feat. Pr. Mielke) 19.11.2023 13:38 ↓

November 19, 2023

Ordinary 32- Fuel the Fire (feat. Pr. Mielke) 13.11.2023 13:44 ↓

November 12, 2023

All Saints' Day: Pass the Fire (feat. Pr. Mielke) 05.11.2023 14:48 ↓

November 5, 2023 As we anticipate the celebration of our 150th Anniversary, we can't help but think of the saints who have gone before us, especially in our Trinity family. This inspires us to run our "leg of the race" and to pass the torch to the next generation.

The Greatest Commandment (feat. Pr. Vieth) 29.10.2023 15:09 ↓

October 29, 2023. Reformation Sunday

Ordinary 29: Mint Condition (feat. Pr. Mielke) 24.10.2023 14:04 ↓

Oct. 25, 2023