“Teaching with authority”/ Sermon for January 28th, 2024 / Epiphany 4 / Hope Lutheran Church, Rev. Lucas Andre Albrecht

Text: Mark 1:21-28 Theme: Teaching with Authority ___________________________ Intr – The online world offers us regularly tons of cards and banners bringing virtual wisdom for our lives, especially when it comes to picture-based social media websites. It goes from advice on health, to spirit, to sadness, to purpose…and so on....

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“Inclusively human”/ Sermon for January 14th, 2024 / Epiphany 2 / Hope Lutheran Church, Rev. Lucas Andre Albrecht

  Texts: John 1.43-51; 1Corinthians 6.12-20; Psalm 139; 1Samuel 3.1-10 Theme: Inclusively human ___________________________ Intr – “It is a big problem for human life when it becomes exclusively human.” This is inspired in a comment of Charles Taylor in “A secular age”.[1] I don’t know if that is exclusive to our...

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“Our hands on His”/ Sermon for December 31st, 2023 / Christmas 1 and New Year’s Eve / Hope Lutheran Church, Rev. Lucas Andre Albrecht

Text: Luke 2:22-40; Galatians 4:4-7 Theme: “Our Hands on His” ­­­­­­­­_______________________ Intr – When I was a child, I remember enjoying a super power I thought I had: I could cover things with my hand. Like as if I could cover some people here in the Church, some instruments, or...

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