Sermons on Matthew 16:21-28
Sermon for Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God the Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Well, last week Pastor Wolf-Muller preached on this confession of St. Peter, and as I was listening a couple of times, he mentioned the disappointed gospel reading, this one from St. Matthew. Well, you shouldn’t really read it or preach it or…
Sermon for Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
To Die For
The Price of the Soul
Get Before Me, Jesus!
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
“Thy kingdom come; MY will be done.”
He might never have used those explicit words, that impetuous, strong-willed Galilean fisherman. But in his actions and by his words, it is pretty clear that sometimes Peter thought that way. He was fine with Jesus ushering…
Living by Dying
Matthew’s Gospel as a whole is a fascinating and detailed description of the Christian life – every burdensome aspect of it. In today’s lesson, after laying it all out there, Jesus essentially asks His disciples, “Are you in, or are you out?” “This is the defining moment,” He claims. “You now know everything that bearing my name entails, and now you must make a decision.”…
