0 One week in August 2017, I came home from Pennsylvania for my uncle’s funeral. It was the end of his earthly journey, but also a new...

About five years ago, my family vacationed near the Grand Canyon. We happened to be there at the same time as a national convention of...

This morning we celebrate the visitation of the angel Gabriel to Mary. In this time before Christmas we see a prime example from Mary of...

Today’s sermon begins with a children’s book about a legend of St. Nicolas. Sometimes the simplest message is the most profound. The...

Children's Sermon - 11/29/2020 What is the worst place to be waiting? A stop light? The grocery check out? Covid testing? Here is my...

My impact story truly comes from the impact stories of others, specially, Fred and Greg. I’ve been involved with centering prayer on the...

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...