Into Freedom Christ Has Freed You

Recorded live at the service for the Last Sunday after the Epiphany, February 15, 2026.

The Rev. Matthew Roberts presided and preached the sermon.

The live-stream of this entire service is available on the church’s YouTube channel (@stmatthewsmn).  Click   here to access the sermon (minute 9:20 on the video).  The sermon can be found in a separate video on the YouTube channel.

Image: Psalm 126 from the Parma Psalter, one of the earliest and most important medieval illuminated manuscript Hebrew psalters, made in about 1280, probably in Emilia in Northern Italy (now in the Palatina Library in Parma, Italy; MS. Parm. 1870). On this page, between the figures is the word שִׁיר (shir, “song”), the first word of Psalm 126 (from the superscription “A Song of Ascents”). The figures on the left, with closed eyes and heads resting on their hands, depict the first verse, “When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, then were we like those who dream.” The figures on the right, looking up and one with outstretched arm, depict the second verse, “Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy.”