Sermons on Luke 2:22-40
Sermon for First Sunday after Christmas
[Machine transcription] Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, we are going to meditate today on this Gospel lesson from Luke chapter 2, but I just, I can’t skip those verses about the bride and the bridegroom in Isaiah chapter…
Sermon for First Sunday of Christmas
[Machine transcription] Simeon took up the child Jesus in his arms and blessed God and said, Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace according to your word. Amen. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, I think the first time I was able to connect a liturgical dot, it was with this song of Simeon, which we sing after the Lord’s…
Prepare to Die, Part 2
[Machine transcription] Simeon took Him up in his arms and blessed God and said, Lord, now You are letting Your Servant depart in peace. Amen. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Steve and Darla and Tay and Soren, dear saints of God, Jesus is now forty days old and he’s being brought into the temple to be presented to the Lord and for the holy family…
Seeing Jesus
Speaking of Him to All
Appointed for the Rising and Falling of Many
Sermon for 1st Sunday after Christmas
The Presentation
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
As has become our pattern in recent years, we celebrate the feasts and festivals of the church year when they fall on Sundays. In spite of the much-appreciated extra work for our beloved Altar Guild in changing the paraments a few more times, it is right and…
The Child, The Gift
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
There are some great things about having a church year, a liturgy, a lectionary of readings, Collects, and other Propers of the day. That is, in having those things that—with an ever-changing dynamic of variety—put a predictable framework around our gathering in…
Prepared in the Presence of All People
Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen. Whenever families get together there is always a regaling of stories of times past. Being the youngest of four kids, it was always about what I did. How I did this or that. How they changed my diapers and so forth. You oldest ones have got it going on, I'm telling…
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