Holy Trinity Lutheran Church - Buffalo, NY

05/30/2026

A glorious morning of MUSIC at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church - Buffalo, NY in celebration of Holy Trinity Sunday, the feast day of our church! We are visited by Bishop Lee Miller II who will serve as our guest preacher. We will recognize our senior acolytes, and thank our choral artists and musicians for an incredible season of uplifting music ministry. Soli Deo Gloria!

05/29/2026

On this day in 1538, Pope Paul III set aside the Spanish Inquisition's sentence against Benedictine monk, humanist, and theologian, and later bishop, Alonso de Virués, who had been accused of Lutheran sympathies. We wonder if Lutherans today exhibit Lutheran sympathies enough to risk imprisonment for our faith.
Sabbath here begins this evening at 8:45. Here's a question to open your heart.

05/28/2026

Here's a short video with Pastor Jeff interviewing The Rev Dr Carmelo Santos (representing the ELCA), Lindsay Stannard (newly elected Vice President of the Synod), and Bishop Lee Miller II, who will be with us in worship this Sunday.

05/24/2026

Pentecost is not quiet.
Wind. Breath. Movement. Commotion.
The Holy Spirit didn’t stay inside the room in Acts 2 … and the Spirit is still moving people beyond comfort and predictability today.
God speaks not only through words, but through compassion, hospitality, curiosity, and joy.

On Pentecost, the Holy Spirit arrives not quietly, but as wind, breath, and movement—calling us beyond comfort into compassion, hospitality, and the unfamiliar work of God.

05/24/2026

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05/24/2026

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05/23/2026

As we post this week's Sabbath Pause, the sun has just dipped below the horizon, ushering in with darkness the Sabbath, the day of the Lord's rest, the first thing in scripture that God declared holy. We remember the Feast of Fire, marking the first productive use of fire by early humans 1.4 million years ago, a step in evolution easily forgotten in our day of advanced technology. Celebrate this day with the ritual lighting of your Sabbath candles, appreciating all the efforts of our ancestors that result in the comforts and advances of our day.

05/17/2026

In community with each other, we celebrate the mystical reality that our lives are parts of the same flow of sacred history that sustains us and carries us all along.

There’s a scene in Disney’s 1994 movie The Lion King that could come straight from our scriptures. The lion cub Simba, having run from his past, reaches a crisis in his life. He wanders into the sa…

05/17/2026

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