Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Saints, the Lord Jesus is with the disciples and with us in the boat in the midst of the storm. But he’s asleep. And the disciples cry out, “Lord, don’t you care that we’re perishing?” Jesus never answers the question. But he does stand up in the middle of the boat and rebuke the wind…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Saints, we today hear the end of Matthew chapter 10. We’ve been hearing from Matthew chapter 10 for the last three or four weeks this preaching of Jesus where he was sending his disciples out to preach the kingdom. He was sending them ahead of him so that they would prepare the way that he was going and he was…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. May God’s word of peace touch your hearts this morning. Today’s gospel reading addresses a question that is asked both in society and in the church: Who is my neighbor? But actually there’s another question behind that question, and that is, how much must I…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. It’s my habit to get up early every day and go for a run. And it’s my habit to pray Lamentations chapter 3, verses 22 and 23 on my run. I’m going to read it for you again; it’s the Old Testament reading. The steadfast love of…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. In the Gospel reading today are the beautiful and perhaps familiar words of Jesus about the easy yoke that he gives. But the reading starts as a prayer of Jesus. And then he turns back to the crowd he’s speaking to and kind of shifts gears into…
Self Justification Always Fails
[Machine transcription] And the lawyer said to Jesus, desiring to justify himself, “Who is my neighbor?” You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, the Holy Spirit has before us today this text, this parable of Jesus, the Good Samaritan. But we don’t want to miss the context. I mean, Jesus is not just preaching this to the crowd. Jesus…
Proclaiming What He Has Done
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. Preaching the word of Jesus drives out demons and ushers in the kingdom of God. Now, it’s interesting because when you talk about preaching the…
At Harvest Time All Will Be Reconciled
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you, from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Sometimes, as we look at today’s world and all that’s going on, we can get pretty sad by the continued state of degradation of things. And sometimes, living in this world and putting up with the things that we have to constantly…