Sermons on Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Sermon for Ash Wednesday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, the two most important things for us to know are also the two most difficult things for us to know. And they are these. First, you are a sinner who deserves the wrath of God. And second, you have a Savior, who has endured that wrath for you. Now we’re going to explore the difficulty of those two…
Sermon for Ash Wednesday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, there are two things that God wants us to know, two things that He wants us to believe. The first is this: that we are sinners. Sinners who have broken God’s law, who have not kept His commands, and who deserve, because of our sin, His wrath and anger. Now the Lord has to convince us of this…
Sermon for Ash Wednesday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, you’ve got a little something right there. Do you think it’s strange that we put ashes on our head at the same time we read Jesus telling us not to put ashes on our head? And here’s the point. Jesus is worried, and I think the church is worried about this, that we would think that…
Sermon for Ash Wednesday
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. You may be seated. Whenever we do think of repentance, we tend to associate it always with when we have been caught doing wrong. And that is a very true thing. Having come out of a tragedy or a difficult experience, it drives us to our knees to…
Commending Yourself to God
[Machine transcription] This has been around for a while, this quip. It goes like this: One’s treasures tell the tale of one’s heart. One’s treasures tell the tale of one’s heart. In other words, your external choices in this world reveal a great deal about what’s on the inside of your bosom. The choices that you make, the things that you…
Ash Wednesday
Grace, mercy,
and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ. Amen.
In 1985, Paul
Simon, of Simon and Garfunkel musical fame, released an album entitled, “Graceland.” In the title song of that album, a
mournful Simon sings of a man, lost and lonely, struggling to make sense of life
in the midst of his…
All or Nothing
Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters in Christ, we begin this Lenten season with contemplation on the Gospel reading. It is good to visit those who are dying. They have a perspective on this life. For those who are struggling with death, be it cancer or be it living out their last days in…