Last Sunday of the Church Year (Page 2)
Stay Awake
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be upon 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’s sermon comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. Everyone in every generation has had the lesson of the fig tree portrayed to them. If you heard in the Gospel…
Whether Lost or Strayed
[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 talks about the King returning with glory to bring his sheep home in the parable and the gospel reading. You may be seated. Today, as in the last two Sundays, we have been reading…
Jesus, Remember Me
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, the text for this morning, this last Sunday of the church year, Christ the King Sunday, comes from the Gospel reading. Be seated. When the angel Gabriel stood by the side of Mary and told her that she was to have the Son…
He Who Presents You Blameless, Comes Unaware
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The text for this morning, the last Sunday of the church year, comes from the Gospel reading, as well as the Epistle of St. Jude. The text that we’ve been listening to the last three Sundays, and the hymns of which we’ve been…
Whose Good Works?
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Fifty-two Sundays. That’s what we get each year. Advent and then Christmas; Epiphany and then Lent; Holy Week and Easter; Ascension and Pentecost and all those green Sundays which follow; a smattering of saints’ days and other observances mixed in, and it all…
Happily Ever After
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
“Once upon a time…and they lived happily ever after. The End.” These are words many of us grew up on, the words of a teacher or a parent reading to us from a fairy tale, words which we enjoyed hearing because of the pleasant ending we knew they would bring…
His Kingdom is NOT of This World
Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from the King of Kings, Christ, our dear Lord. Brothers and sisters in Christ, the text for this morning comes from that Gospel reading. While trying to mind my own business, I heard a young captain discuss about the horrendous nature of the culture of Islam, about how they treat their women, and about horrible…
Amazing Results
Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters, on this last Sunday of the church year, the sermon text is the Gospel reading. “Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I…
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