Sermons by Vicar Sarah Freyermuth
Transfiguration of Our Lord
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,…
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
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…
The Baptism of Our Lord
Today, as Jesus rises up from the Jordan River, as the heavens are opened and the Holy Spirit descends like a dove, we get our first look at Jesus as an adult in the Gospel of Matthew. Just the chapter before he was a child in Nazareth! The huge time jump in Matthew’s Gospel can feel abrupt, can make it seem at first glance like Jesus simply appeared one day at the Jordan River, fully-formed and ready to begin his ministry…