Utah Wine Pastor

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Rick's message for the fourth Sunday in Lent speaks to the difference between aimless journeying and following The Way.

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Rick's message for the third Sunday of Lent.  It's based on Isaiah 55:1-9 and Luke 13:1-9.  Jesus parable of the fig tree is a picture of a patient God.  

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Rick's message for the second Sunday of Lent.  He talks about how the Kingdom of God is "Already" here but "Not Yet" fully realized.  How to live in the "In-between" time from Jesus Incarnation to his Second Coming.

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Rick's message for staying "true" during our Lenten journeys.  Based on Joel 2:12-18, Romans 10:8-13 and Luke 4:1-13.  How our Lenten experience mirrors and is based on Jesus' temptations in the wilderness.

Send us Fan Mail Bonnie and Pastor Rick attended the French Wine class hosted by Sheral Schowe and the Wasatch Academy of Wine at Scleto Modern Italian Restaurant in Sandy, Utah on 03-05-25.  Six really interesting wines reviewed and two terrific meals.

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Rick's message for Transfiguration Sunday.  He talks about Mountaintop Experiences and where real discipleship and transformation take place.

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Rick talks about his memorable meal fail with his Salt Lake wine group on February 22.  Food was great, but the presence of a flawed Bordeaux is what really made it memorable.

Send us Fan Mail Second installment of Pastor Rick's sermon series on the Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plain.  It emphasizes radical generosity

Send us Fan Mail Part 1 of Pastor Rick's sermon series on the heart and life of a follower of Jesus.  It's based on Luke 6:17-26, Psalm 1, and Jeremiah 17:5-10. 

Send us Fan Mail Two winners from Mountain of Faith Wine Night.  Limestone Hill Chardonnay from South Africa and Guidal Cotes du Rhone Rouge from France.  Excellent!

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Rick shares thoughts on a very memorable meal he had with the Premium Wine Club of Wasatch Academy of Wine.  It was held at Carmine's Italian Restaurant in Cottonwood Heights on Feb. 4, 2025.

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Rick's message for February 2, based on Jeremiah 1, Psalm 71 and Luke 4.  "Great Expectations"

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Rick's message based on Nehemiah 8 and Luke 4 that speak to us about the urgency in responding to God's Word.

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Rick's message for the second Sunday after Epiphany, "Water Into Wine."  Appropriate for the Utah Wine Pastor to talk about Jesus' first miracle - turning water into wine at the wedding in Cana.

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Rick, the Utah Wine Pastor talks about two recent memorable meals and the wines that made them so - 2016 Chateau Bernadotte and a 2018 E. Guigal Cote Rotie - Brune et Blonde.  Wow!

Send us Fan Mail Sunday message for January 5, 2025.  "Promises Made, Promises Kept."  Pastor Rick's message for the Second Sunday of Christmas and the New Year.

Send us Fan Mail Some notes and thoughts on the 2020 vintage of Alexander Valley Chardonnay from Sonoma County, California.

Send us Fan Mail Utah Wine Pastor's message for December 29, the fifth day of Christmas.  It's based on 1 Samuel 2:18-26 and Luke 2:41-52.  The importance of family is related to the Incarnation.  Merry Christmas!

Send us Fan Mail A quick review of a great wine buy in Utah - Dry Creek Meritage from 2018.  It's a Bordeaux style blend and it's a great deal for as long as it lasts.  Check it out.

Send us Fan Mail God's ways are not our ways.  We should expect the unexpected in the Christmas story and in our lives.

Send us Fan Mail Describes my background, love and appreciation for wine.  My goal is to make wine less complicated and less intimidating for the average person.  

Send us Fan Mail The first week of Advent - a cure for "Rapid Holiday Syndrome."

Send us Fan Mail A special week in Advent.  We're called to rejoice.  But can we?

Send us Fan Mail Getting to know Pastor Rick Ehrheart (The Utah Wine Pastor) and his wife of 51 years, Bonnie