Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Sermon for Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, if it’s all right, I start with a little personal antidote from this week. I don’t know if it’s the same with you, the last few weeks have just, it seems like the world has kind of gone crazy. I don’t know why, but it seems more than usual, I think coming out of the presidential…
Sermon for Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? You may be seated. Dear saints, I suspect that many of you have some of those verses and words from St. Paul in the Epistle Lesson, Romans chapter 8, as your confirmation verses. Or if not, as verses that you’ve memorized as a child, verses that you’ve clung to throughout your life. This is…
Sermon for Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, Jesus continues to get after us today in the sermon, which is a continuation of the preaching from last week, where Jesus is assaulting the idol of Mammon and our tendency to worship our possessions and live only for this life. There’s a connection between the two texts actually last week and this week…
Sermon for Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints of God, we give thanks to God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit that he has given us his word and most especially we thank him for this most blessed letter of St. Paul to the saints of God in Ephesus. We’ve been studying it. The last couple of weeks we did chapter 2, the end of…
Sermon for Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. The text for today’s sermon is the gospel lesson appointed to be read this Sunday, the ninth Sunday after the Pentecost. When I was growing up on the East Coast, I was around 12 or 13 years old at the time. We had a member of the church who…
Not Authorized to Worry
[Machine transcription] Jesus says, The nations of the world seek after these things. Your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek His kingdom, and all these things will be added to you. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Brewer, behold what manner of love the Father has given unto us that we should be called the children of God. Now, you were…