I have been attending Saint Mathew’s Lutheran Church services since the first Sunday of Advent 2019. I was looking for a Christian church...

This is a picture of me when I was 5 with our family pet goat, Bell. I still remember the day we got her. My dad took my brother and me...

Carol and I with four boys in tow arrived in Farmington in April,1975. On that first Sunday we attended St Matthew. The doors were...

I would like to share the impact that the St. Matthew prayer life has had on me. Centering prayer is something I have been interested in...

“Encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.” When Ann was in early high school, Ms Jones invited her to be...

St. Matthew isn't afraid of tough subjects.  When the George Floyd story dominated the news, as well as other tragic and violent deaths...

Hi – I’m Greg. When I moved to CT in 2015, I could not have perceived the number of upheavals that lay ahead. I moved all the way from...

I remember when I was in high school one snowy morning. I woke up to find school was canceled, so I went back to sleep. My brother was...

This week I received a homemade “Remembering You on All Saints Day” card from St Matthew’s confirmation class. Inside I found they were...

It is so wonderful to be with you in worship again this morning! As I reflect on the ways in which Christ showed up for me in the...

When I took a break from ministry to stay home to raise my small children, I met my friend Maris. She was a transplant to the area like I...

When Martin Luther was a young monk he was obsessive about not sinning. He took the saying “fear of God” to a whole ’nother level. He...

When I was 6, I was thrown out of my own birthday party. We had been playing pin the tail on the donkey, and I lost. I don’t really...

This spring I had the chance to listen in on a conversation of 2020 graduates of my alma mater, Oberlin College. It was part of their...

Six years ago I did my internship at a church in Denver Colorado. My brother flew out to Minnesota from Connecticut and together we...

Imagine there were two mayors of nearby towns in the Old West. Let’s call them Dodge City and Mayberry. There were a lot of Christian...

Matthew was a tax collector. He was Jew working for Rome, collecting hard earned income from people with meager resources For the...

Today is Rally Day, the traditional kickoff to the Sunday School year. It’s different this year. A lot of things are different this...

My first year in college I had a roommate named Jamie. It was a real coincidence that she was assigned to be my roommate, because we had...

On an episode of Seinfeld called “The Opposite” George Costanza starts the episode so discouraged with life that he decides from now on...