ST.MATTHEW TRINITY
LUTHERAN CHURCH

Trivia question: Who was Yogi Berra’s roommate throughout much of his baseball career?  No?  The answer is Bobby Brown, who after his...

Many of you know that during my nursing career, I worked in transplant.  From my business classes, I used to say that I worked both the...

Good morning! I am Terri Matteo, the lead for our vibrant Stewardship Committee at St. Matthew Trinity. This year the theme for our...

Last week we took a break from reading Mark, to hear the story of St. Matthew-the namesake of our parish.  It was St. Matthew's day on...

There are lots of people named Peter.  Not so much Judas. It has kind of gone the way of Adolph or Osama. Peter on the other hand remains...

The stewardship theme this year is “The Fabric of SMT". As a long-time quilter and fabric lover, this theme was right up my alley. Rick...

A global plague, a lantern fly pestilence and so far this year the sun refuses to shine as Canada burns creating havoc for those with...

Lazarus, four days in the grave, mysteriously and miraculously restored to life. Serendipitously, several people have engaged me this...

“God does not give you more than you can handle.” Of all the pious platitudes pursed from the lips of well-intentioned believers, this...

I was having Fish n Chips at Elysian Cafe this week (excellent choice by the way). Sitting at the counter, a woman seated close to me...

Good morning! I really didn’t prepare a sermon today since Pastor Gary got sick last minute but I couldn’t let the day pass without at...

180 gallons. That’s the number 180 gallons of wine. And not 180 gallons of MD 2020 but a hundred and 80 gallons of Laffite Rothschild....

People love the 23rd Psalm. They love its poetry, bucolic imagery, the acute acknowledgment of life’s pain, and its hopefulness. The...

My friends Herb and Edith, both in their late nineties went into an elder care home in Paramus. It was a big move after 70 years in the...

Palm Sunday is one of my favorite Sundays of the year. One of the chief reasons for this is that pastors usually don’t preach on this...

My nephew Jake used to think that I was a celebrity. I once went to Alaska to visit a friend and Jake sat glued to every episode of “Last...

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God. Good morning friends. When I first...

Pandemic, civil unrest, job loss, what’s next? A plague of locus? Great news, there is a plague of locus- in the first lesson form Joel....

Transfiguration Sunday. The Sunday before we begin Lent. I looked at my notes from last year’s sermon. As February drew to a close, an...

Good Morning again as we gather to relax, reflect and imagine just what the living God among us really looks like this Pentecost...