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In this sermon from the 6th Sunday of Easter in 2026, Rev. Ben continues to preach through 1 Peter, and on this passage he speaks on our call to engage a hostile world with the Gospel, where we will encounter resistance and mockery. Peter tells us to not be afraid, but to honor Christ the Lord as holy, and always be prepared…
In this sermon on the Fifth Sunday of Easter, 2026, Rev. Ben preached from 1 Peter 2 this word of proclamation and exhortation, where the apostle Peter wrote about who we are in Christ, and how we are to live into that calling. The identity we have received as a gift gives us a deep sense of purpose, which launches us out…
In this sermon on the 3rd Sunday of Easter, 2026, Rev. Ben preaches on the road to Emmaus event in Luke 24, on why Jesus sometimes hides Himself, and how He makes Himself known through Word and Sacrament. Luke 24:13-35
In this sermon from Easter 2026, Rev. Ben preaches on why the stone was rolled away–not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in, so that we might see, and believe, and enter into eternal life. Matthew 28:1-10
In this sermon from Maundy Thursday of 2026, Rev. Ben speaks on the mandate (mandatum) we have been given on this night, when Jesus humbled himself to serve His disciples, and commanded us to do the same. John 13:1-15
In this sermon on the Fifth Sunday in Lent, 2026, Rev. Ben preaches on the raising of Lazarus in John 11, and how Jesus shows us that these works done for His glory are also for our good. He shows us this in how he waits, weeps, and wins in our lives. John 11:1-44
In this sermon from the 3rd Sunday in Lent, 2026, Rev. Ben preaches on all four of our lectionary texts, with the theme coming from Psalm 95 — harden not your hearts. He explores what a hardened heart does and the consequences, how a heart becomes hardened, and what Jesus does to hardened hearts. The other texts were Exodus 17:1-7; Romans 1:16-32;…
In this sermon on the second Sunday in Lent, 2026, Rev. Ben preaches on this most famous of Bible verses and how God actually does love this world, even in its fallenness and sin. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16-17
On the first Sunday in Lent of 2026, Rev. Ben preaches on the nature of temptation, how it is an opportunity for us to grow in love for God, and how we might learn to overcome it with Christ. Genesis 3:1-7 Matthew 4:1-11
On Ash Wednesday of 2026, Rev. Ben preaches on the psalm that is traditional for this day, Psalm 51, and on the honesty and vulnerability that the Lord calls us to on this day, that we might reckon with the weight of sin, in order that we might know the greater weight of mercy.