Ash Wednesday
Sermon for Ash Wednesday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, tonight we enter into the holy season of fasting that we call Lent. And I want us to consider this tonight: what Lent is not. Lent is not pretending like Jesus hasn’t yet died on the cross and risen from the dead. I think there’s a danger that sometimes we think of Lent in this way and even Holy…
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…
The Gift of Repentance
[Machine transcription] For our sake, He made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Amen. You may be seated. Repent. That is the preaching of John the Baptist when he appears at the Jordan River calling sinners back to the Lord. Repent, that’s the preaching of Jesus when He came declaring the nearness of God’s…
Sermon for Ash Wednesday
[Machine transcription] From 2 Corinthians chapter 5, we implore you on behalf of Christ to be reconciled to God. For our sake, he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. So far the text. People have many ideas about Lent. Some see it as a time to deny themselves some pleasure. You may have even been asked the question,…
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…
Sermon for Ash Wednesday
[Machine transcription] First, the Antichrist, the remodeled world’s Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text for this evening comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. I, a poor sinner, plead guilty before God of all sins. I have lived as if God did not matter, and as if I mattered most. My Lord’s name I have not…
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…
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