Fifth Sunday in Lent
Sermon for Fifth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] May God give us his grace and peace. Dear Christians, the conspiracy was underway. Easter was drawing near, and the beloved son was about to be cast out of the vineyard. The chief priest, the scribes, and the elders of the people plotted together in order to hand him over to the governor. Blinded and filled with hate, these vine dressers kept on…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, Jesus and his disciples are not on the same page. In fact, in the Gospel reading, they’re headed in opposite directions. Their minds are on opposite things. Jesus is leading them into Jerusalem, but it even says that the disciples are hanging back and they’re afraid. They know what’s…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Jesus hears that Lazarus is ill, and so he waits two days to go and visit. But then when it’s time, he announces it to the disciples, and they’re hesitant, knowing that this is going to be a dangerous endeavor. But they go anyway. It’s a stunning and beautiful text. There’s a lot for us to…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Gabe and all the baptized, there is a miracle at work in baptism. And it is the opposite miracle that the Lord performed in the wilderness. We’ll remember that in the sea, the Lord Jesus makes a path, a dry path for the people to cross through the wilderness. He makes a desert in the ocean. In fact, all…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, prepare your hearts, for we will in a few minutes stand and confess our faith. We will renounce the devil and all his works and all his ways. We will recommit ourselves to attending to the Lord’s word and the services of the Lord’s house, and we will promise before God and the angels and one…
Sermon for 5th Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, the basis of the Christian faith are these. We live in faith towards God, we live in love toward our neighbor, and we abide in hope for the life to come. Faith in God, love for the neighbor, and hope for the life to come, and those three things are tested in times like these. I was reading this week a letter…
Can’t Someone Else Do It?
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the reading from St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians as the text today, please be seated. The New Testament part of the Bible was originally written in the Greek language. And in Greek, there are certain words…
Living and Believing in Jesus
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be upon you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Let us pray. Death’s power holds us still in thrall and bears us toward the tomb. Death’s darkening cloud hangs like a pall that threatens earth with doom. But you have broken death’s embrace and torn away its sting. Restore…
A New Way to 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. You may be seated. What shall I do? Was that really the question that was asked? What shall I do? I know what you would do. And I know what I would do.…