Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Sermon for Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God the Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Well, last week Pastor Wolf-Muller preached on this confession of St. Peter, and as I was listening a couple of times, he mentioned the disappointed gospel reading, this one from St. Matthew. Well, you shouldn’t really read it or preach it or…

Sermon for Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Did you hear in today’s Old Testament reading how much God talks about himself? I am the Lord. Behold, I, I myself, and I myself, and I myself am going to do all these things. I’ll do it. It’s all a little much, isn’t it? It’s as if…

Sermon for Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you, from God the Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. In the church where I grew up, there would be an assembly every Sunday morning before children were dismissed to their Sunday school classes. The Sunday school superintendent would conduct a short devotion consisting of scripture and prayer. The whole…

More Than Fair

Grace, mercy, and peace to you, from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. If ever there was a parable that demonstrated the stark contrast between the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of this world, it is this one. As we try to scramble to the top of the heap in our dog-eat-dog society, effort and initiative in our chosen field usually…