Sermons by Vicar Sarah Freyermuth

Sermons by Vicar Sarah Freyermuth

The Feast of Saint Francis

Wicker Park Lutheran Church Vicar Sarah Freyermuth October 5, 2025 Today, as I look out at all the joy and noise and happy chaos of this service, all I can think is “I wish we had animals in our service every week!” Now if you suggested to most pastors that every week should have a bring-your-pet to worship service, they’d probably laugh you out of the room. That’s because in most churches, the services have a specific pattern they follow,…

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Wicker Park Lutheran Church Vicar Sarah Freyermuth September 28, 2025 If you’ve ever thought “I wonder how Vicar Sarah writes her sermon,” then today is your lucky today, because I’m giving you a peek behind the curtain! (And if you’ve never wondered that, maybe for my sake just pretend that you have for a few moments.) Because I’m training to be a Lutheran pastor, one of the first questions I always ask myself is: what is the Law and the…

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

Wicker Park Lutheran Church Vicar Sarah Freyermuth August 31, 2025 In our Gospel lesson today, Jesus names a lot of binaries: between sitting at the place of honor and sitting at the lowest place, between those who are honored and those who are disgraced, between those who will be exalted and those who will be humbled. But to go beyond simply naming these binaries, I want us to think about how the experience of the wedding banquet and the Sabbath…
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