Sermons on Luke 10:25-37
Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. May God’s word of peace touch your hearts this morning. Today’s gospel reading addresses a question that is asked both in society and in the church. Who is my neighbor? But actually there’s another question behind that question, and that is, how much must I…
Self Justification Always Fails
[Machine transcription] And the lawyer said to Jesus, desiring to justify himself, who is my neighbor? You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, the Holy Spirit has before us today this text, this parable of Jesus, the Good Samaritan. But we don’t want to miss the context. I mean, Jesus is not just preaching this to the crowd. Jesus is telling this…
You Are the Man
Found and Saved
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
The story of the Good Samaritan. Many of you have heard it dozens of times, if not hundreds. On the surface, it seems that Jesus is telling His hearers how to love the unlovable, or how even outcasts can find acceptability to God. That is, there’s a tendency to read…
Just Being Neighborly
Grace,
mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior,
Jesus Christ. Amen.
It’s
not the Ten Commandments, but in several ways, it sounds pretty close.
It’s not a catechism in the usual sense, either, but it’s certainly
very instructive about the commands of God. It’s very emphatic…
