Knox Church Sermons

This is a transcription of the video message Adam Fronczek offered on Sunday, April 25, 2021.    Today, as we continue the season of Easter

Our passage begins with “While they were talking about this…”, so let’s go back a few verses to see what they were talking about. On

Sarah Aldrich’s relationship with Knox was beautiful.  She loved this place.  She played bells and sang in the choir and served as the music librarian. 

As we hear the Easter story today, I want to take a moment to think about some other stories you know.  Think for a moment

On this Palm Sunday, due to the pandemic we miss the palm procession by our young people that usually leads us into worship this day.

Scripture: John 4:1-41. The complete scripture may be found at the end of the sermon. This is a transcription of the video message Adam Fronczek

During today’s sermon, I am going to invite you once again into a story from the Gospel of John about someone who has an encounter

Meet Ted Lasso.  Ted Lasso is the lead character in a new comedy on Apple TV that bears his name.  It’s got a lot of

In the story we read today, we are confronted by not one, but two of the most recognizable sound bites in Christianity.  One is John

Sermon It may not be obvious at first, but the story about Elijah and Elisha—especially the ending where Elijah ascends in the chariot of fire

In the 12-Step Program of Recovery from the disease of addiction, a primary vehicle of the spiritual solution the program offers is meetings, when members

In our Gospel story today, Jesus performs his first act of his public ministry in the Galilean seaside town of Capernaum. It is the sabbath

The calling of Jesus’ disciples is a story I remember clearly from childhood Sunday School.  I remember coloring and pasting and moving around the felt

It’s tempting–especially when tensions are high in the culture around us and the news is all people seem to talk about–to expect sermons to be

As I sometimes do, I wish to offer a word of caution before I begin today.  The content of this sermon will be difficult.  You

This week we celebrate Epiphany in the life of the church, the celebration of the revealing of Jesus’ birth to the nations beyond Judea, beyond

It was in the year 1223, almost 800 years ago, that the first nativity scene appeared at Christmastime.  St. Bonaventure tells the story in his

Introduction There is a passage from Paul’s Letter to the Philippians that is often read on this Fourth Sunday of Advent.  Some have called it

Well, here we are on the Third Sunday of Advent, a little less than two weeks before Christmas.  It’s an unusual year to say the

Six centuries before the birth of Jesus, God’s people dreamt of going home.  In 598 BC, Jerusalem was sacked, and the Temple destroyed, and following

To offer some background of our passage today, the Israelites have lived in Egypt for 430 years. Over those centuries the population of Israel swelled

It seems to me like it’s been kind of a dizzying week.  High hopes for a vaccine are updated daily, but for most of us,

This great parable that Jesus tells in the 25th chapter of Matthew is better understood if we first say what it is not about.  For

Once again this week, I had an experience that seems unique to this strange time of pandemic.  I had planned to work on my sermon