Sermons on Matthew 4:1-11
Sermon for First Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan, for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.” You may be seated. Dear Theodore and all the baptized, dear Shannon and all the confessors of Christ, grace, mercy, and peace be yours from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Jesus is in the…
Temptation
[Machine transcription] Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, the question is often asked, it’s often asked to me. Why in the world did the Lord build that tree in the first place? What is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil doing in the midst of the…
Him Only Shall You Serve
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The text is the reading about the temptation of our Lord Jesus Christ for you. You may be seated. In the Old Testament reading, enter the serpent, or really rather the evil one. The one who seeks someone to devour and the only people for him to…
Worshiping the Lord Your God
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text for this morning comes from the Gospel reading. So last Wednesday we began the season of Lent. Forty days until Easter, of course not counting Sundays. There’s Sundays in Lent, not of Lent.…
Past Imperfect Prophet, Future Perfect
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Imagine for a moment that you have no food or water. Here in Texas, we’ve been in a drought for a few years now. There’s been very little rain. We got a little sprinkling yesterday, but none at all last month. Since I moved here almost six years ago, Lake Travis,…
Lead Us Not Into Temptation, But Deliver Us From Evil
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Think about it; Lent really is kind of a microcosm of our baptized life in Christ. The collect that Pastor prayed, that we all prayed together, said, “Guide the people of…