Sixth Sunday of Easter

[Machine transcription] Christ is risen, He is risen indeed. Hallelujah! In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear saints, our gospel lesson takes us to Monday Thursday same place we were last week, the week before next week even Thursday on Ascension. We’ll be listening to the Lord Jesus’ words from Monday Thursday to His apostles there and he says to them that…

[Machine transcription] Christ is risen, he has risen indeed. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Mark and Hank and Noah, to all the baptized and to all those who confess our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord Jesus, in the gospel lesson tonight, is giving his last sermon. In fact, this is the last part of his last sermon to his disciples. Right after the words that we…

[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Saints, this morning I want to explore this preaching of Jesus from John 15, but before I close the hymnal, I want to point out one little line from Luther. It’s in stanza 6. It’s a theme that runs through the ancient church and it comes up all the time in…

[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Saints, at the end of his life they were publishing Luther. At the end of Luther’s life they were publishing an edition of his German works, and he wrote in the preface of that a little commentary on Psalm 119. We read or sang a few verses of Psalm 119. We…

[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He has risen indeed. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Saints, dear Noah, Micah, Elise, Abbey, and Isaac. God’s peace be with you as you are brought today into the fellowship of the Lord’s altar, to His name and to His triumph. There’s a text in Revelation 12 that brings together all of Christian…

[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He has risen indeed. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear saints, I do not know if you have found yourself before listening or overhearing a conversation that you knew that you were not supposed to. Now, not in a bad way, like not hearing people plot something nefarious or something like this, but just a conversation that…

[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints of God, Jesus knows that it is best for us if we are Christians. He knows that it is best, that this is the best way to be alive, the best way to be a human being, and that is to be a follower of Jesus, to believe in him, to trust in him. Jesus knows. In fact,…