All Saints Day, November 2, 2025, Pastor Greg Rathke, Sermon Audio

All Saints Day. It can tug at your heart in a variety of ways. Our senses can quickly bring us back to one of our loved ones can’t they? It could be a smell, something we see, something we smell or something or something we hear and we instantly have a loved one in our minds and also in our hearts.

All Saints Day is a time to remember them fondly, but it isn’t always easy. There is most certainly or was most certainly crying involved. Now there is waiting involved, waiting for Jesus to return on the Last Day, and there is hoping involved. Hope in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to restore all things including our loved ones to a new paradise where they(we) will walk in newness of life forever.

Crying, Waiting and Hoping - What a process He has given us. Thanks be to God.

• Psalm 130
• 1 John 3:1-3
• Matthew 5:1-12