Wheat Ridge Evangelical Lutheran Church

Wheat Ridge Evangelical Lutheran Church Wheat Ridge Evangelical Lutheran Church is a family of believers united in Christ. We are members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

Our mission is to show Him to others, to ease one another’s burdens and to glorify God in all we do.

09/06/2026

Little children in the midst of the disciples. Stray sheep who have been found. Dismembered hands and feet. Gouged out eyes. Jesus in the midst of 2 or 3 gathered in His name. … There is a lot going on in this text and although it seems to be a bunch of disjointed ramblings with no central point, Jesus says differently. … Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? It isn’t who you think. It isn’t the high priest down at the temple or the Pharisees socially distancing himself from the unclean people. It isn’t Peter or any of the other disciples who see greatness from a worldly point of view. The greatest is the least, but least in the way of helplessness. Like a little nursing infant completely dependent on her mother; the one who needs the kingdom to be brought to him because he can’t come to it; the one can’t by his own reason or strength believe in Jesus. While the 99 sheep are all wondering what in the world is so great about the fool who got lost, the heavens rejoice as the shepherd carries the scattered one back and throws a party. … And so maybe, just maybe, being a helpless little child and a silly lost sheep is the greatest thing we could be.

08/30/2026

Peter is called Satan. Just previous he was commended by our Lord for proclaiming Him to be the Christ, the Son of the living God. Now He is told to stand behind Jesus, for his mind and heart are on the things of man; which in the end are the things of the demons. One must ask why this sudden change. … Jesus foretold His death. He had done so already through parables and allusions to Jonah, but here is the first time that He does so explicitly. And Peter can’t handle it. The sinner can’t comprehend a God who saves by dying, who brings victory through what appears to be defeat. Suffering and death and cross and grave are no place for Jesus the Christ, the Son of the living God, at least that is what Peter thinks. But Jesus knows that these things are exactly what it means to be the Christ. He is headed to the cross, not even the gates of hell can stop Him. And if Peter is in league with the devil, trying to keep Jesus from the cross, then Peter can get behind the Christ, for there is a cross to be had and sinners to be forgiven.

08/23/2026

Who is Jesus? That is the question that is given to the disciples. It is also the question laid before us as well, society included. The danger here is thinking that if you know the name “Jesus,” then you know who Jesus is. Many know of Jesus but do not know Jesus. … Is He a prophet? Sure, but much more. Is He a teacher? Yes, but that doesn’t even begin to describe Him. … No, Jesus, “the Christ, the Son of the living God,” and that only means one thing. Jesus is the Savior of the human race. And with Him comes the forgiveness of sins. If you know Jesus apart from the forgiveness of sins then you don’t know Jesus. If He isn’t the Jesus of the cross and the empty tomb then He isn’t the real Jesus. It is upon this confession that the Church is built. And it is within this Church that the forgiveness of sins is given.

08/16/2026

Jesus is a jerk in our text for today. Or maybe He knows what He is doing the whole time. Yeah, that’s probably more the case. But still, did He really have to be so harsh on that poor woman whose little girl was possessed by a demon? … This text has always been a hard one for me. You don’t go around calling women dogs. But that, of course, is exactly what the disciples thought of her, because to them, Canaanites were nothing but unclean, less-that-human, mongrels. So maybe Jesus is trying to teach us something here, and not just at the expense of the poor woman either. Maybe He has something to say about clean and unclean, about how and why one is forgiven, about what forgiveness really is in the first place. Maybe, just maybe, the disciples will walk away with a better understanding of these thing. Hopefully we will too…

08/09/2026

Just stay in the boat. We often times hear this account of Peter and his “little faith” and wonder what would have happened if he had just kept his eyes on Jesus. The wind and the waves were certainly terrifying, but Jesus was there and with Him, everything would be alright. And so we assume that if only Peter had greater faith he would have been able to trounce upon the ocean waves until kingdom come. … I’m not sure that Peter is an example to emulate though. When Jesus denounces Peter for having “little faith” what is He referring to: Is it the fact that Peter sank or is it the fact that Peter got out of the boat? At first glance one would assume that getting out of the boat showed Peter’s strong faith, but I’m not so sure…

Address

8600 W 38th Avenue
Wheat Ridge, CO
80033

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 2pm
Tuesday 9am - 2pm
Wednesday 9am - 2pm
Thursday 9am - 2pm
Friday 9am - 2pm
Sunday 8:45am - 11am

Telephone

(303) 424-3161

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