Sermons by Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller
Sermon for Sixth Sunday of Easter
[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…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen, he is risen indeed, hallelujah. I am the true vine, says Jesus, and my father is the vinedresser. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, what comes to mind when I hear that phrase, I am the vine, I almost automatically fill in the second phrase. I don’t know if this happens in your imagination as well. I…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He has risen indeed. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Steve and all the baptized, the Lord Jesus has you as one of his sheep, which seems at first to be nice until we start to think more and more about what it means to be a sheep. I’m told by the people who know these kind of things that sheep don’t have a…
Sermon for Easter Sunday
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia. In the name of the risen Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear saints, it is a wonder that God the Holy Spirit has gathered us into this room today in the conviction that something that happened 1,991 years ago in a small little corner of the world, in a garden, in a little cave, a little tomb, that something that…
Sermon for Good Friday Tenebrae
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, I was recently visiting with someone who told me that they once heard a sermon in which the following line was spoken, there is no place in the house of God for those who have been divorced. They told me that when they heard that they didn’t stop coming to church, but every time that they came…
Sermon for Palm Sunday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. To Holland and to all the baptized, you have a different kind of king. A king is put into office and we call that their coronation or their exaltation. And that’s exactly what our Lord Jesus is talking about in the gospel lesson today in John…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, Jesus and his disciples are not on the same page. In fact, in the Gospel reading, they’re headed in opposite directions. Their minds are on opposite things. Jesus is leading them into Jerusalem, but it even says that the disciples are hanging back and they’re afraid. They know what’s…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Jesus says, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. You may be seated. Dear Henry the Baptized, and all the Lord’s baptized people, the Lord was trying to explain to Nicodemus on this night how baptism could do such great works, how baptism…
Sermon for Lent Midweek 1
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, we are about 15 hours before our Lord breathes his last and dies on the cross. It is Holy Thursday. The disciples have traveled with Jesus to Jerusalem, something that they were nervous about doing for weeks and weeks. Remember, Jesus had to talk them into going even to Bethany to rescue Lazarus.…
Sermon for First Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness, and Jesus was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, we want to consider what it means that Jesus is tempted for forty days and forty nights in the wilderness by the devil and rejoice in the accomplishment that our…
