Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Page 2)
Learn From Me
[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. It was St. Augustine, somewhere between the late 300s and early 400s A.D., who said this: “You, O God, have created us for…
Understandably Upset
Grace, mercy, and peace to
you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Simon the Pharisee was understandably
upset. No doubt you’d be upset, too, if what happened to him happened to
you. He was trying to hold a proper gathering of the right sort of people. He
didn’t want this party-crashing woman bursting in and…
Grace Triumphs Efficiency
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. If you’ve ever run a business or have been so closely affiliated with the operation of that business, then all of this makes very good sense to you in that there is a paradigm to business in order for it to be successful, profitable, and…
Proclaim What He Has Done for You
Grace, mercy, and peace be
unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,
Amen.
Is there a spiritual difference
between this demon-possessed man and an unbeliever? The answer is, “No.”
There is no spiritual difference between these…
Waiting Quietly for the Salvation of the Lord (aka The Waiting Game)
Grace, mercy, and peace be upon you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters in Christ, the text comes from the Gospel reading, but it’s the Old Testament that gives the meat to what is said in the Gospel reading. You may be seated. All of us are waiting…
It’s Guaranteed
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the only truly Righteous One. Amen. If it’s one thing we learn from the Bible, and particularly from today’s Epistle lesson from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans, it’s this: Mankind is not in control. We are in control of some things, of course. But we are certainly not in…
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