Sermons by Vicar Sarah Freyermuth

Wicker Park Lutheran Church Vicar Sarah Freyermuth March 15, 2026 My dad is now retired, but he spent most of his career as a law professor with a particularly dry sense of humor. And I remember one particular day, he came home from work looking exhausted. I asked him what was wrong, and he explained that he’d had a tough class, and then he said, “You know, they say there’s no such thing as a stupid question… But some get…

Wicker Park Lutheran Church Vicar Sarah Freyermuth February 15, 2026 During Youth Group a few weeks ago, we were watching a video that talked about how important it is that Jesus came to the world as a poor baby from Bethlehem, which the video jokingly and not-so-nicely referred to as a “backwater of a backwater town in those days.” And after the video, I asked the youth why they thought it mattered that Jesus came to us in this form,…

Wicker Park Lutheran Church Vicar Sarah Freyermuth February 1, 2026 Our Gospel passage today is the beginning of the most famous sermon of all time: The Sermon on the Mount, the first of Jesus’ teaching. Pastor Jason and I joked a few months ago that sometimes we’re tempted instead of preaching to just read the Gospel again and sit down, because there’s nothing we can say that says it better than Jesus himself. So with that I’ll head out. No…