Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Sermon for Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters, there is, in some of our churches today, I think there’s this tendency, or maybe an inclination, to take this gospel lesson about the widow and her offering, and extract…
Sermon for Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God, our Father, and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear friends in Christ, one of the best-known verses in all the sacred scriptures that will get the hairs on the back of the necks of Lutherans to stand up is: faith apart…
Sermon for Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints of God, we’re headed to the epistle, Hebrews chapter 10, but just to say a quick word about the gospel lesson from our Lord Jesus. We’ll say more about this next week, the last Sunday of the church year, because to be ready…
God Is Enough
[Machine transcription] Acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our rock and our redeemer. Amen. Our text for this morning comes from both the Old Testament and the Gospel lessons. You may be seated. We’ll let it pass. Ah, it’s 11 o’clock. How much do you trust God? Do you worry about your clothes, what you’re going to wear? Do you worry about your food,…
Comfort while Enduring
[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 comes from the Gospel reading. Let me be seated. It’s kind of hard to miss the fact that we are in the end times. Consider the earthquakes that have occurred and the tsunamis. Consider the…
Stand Fast in the Faith
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
It’s the Second-Last Sunday of the Church year. Soon we will begin another, and the crisp blue paraments of Advent will find their way upon our chancel, upon altar, pulpit, and lectern. As Church years draw to a close, we hear lessons that speak of the end times,…
Reading the Signs
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Fall has come, such as it is here in Texas. It’s not the sort of autumn I grew up with in the northern reaches of the country, where by now the leaves would mostly be well past their peak color and many would be brown and dry and already fallen. We might’ve…