Sermons by Rev. Dr. Mark S. Nuckols, Senior Pastor (Page 11)
You Shall Go Out Leaping
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text comes from the Gospel reading about the end times. You may be seated. The last book of the New Testament, the Revelation of St. John, was the last book written by God’s chosen Apostle John to…
Blessed Are the Sheltered
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to 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 comes from the brief epistle of St. John, the second reading. You may be seated. So when you think of the treasures of the church, what are they? Maybe I should ask it in a different…
Naked and Needy Receivers
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. So can I say that the political situation is even getting crazier right now? And it makes one wonder a question that I’d like to ask you. Do you…
Uniformity of Practice and Confession
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to 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 comes from the Acts reading regarding the first council in Jerusalem. You may be seated. So two weeks ago, we talked about a great pillar of faith in the Old Testament. Her name was…
Wrestling With God
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text is from the Old Testament reading regarding the patriarch Jacob. Will you pray with me? The Lord my life arranges. Who can his work destroy? In his good time he changes all sorrow into joy. So then let…
Forgiveness Finding Foreigners
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters in Christ, the text comes from the Old Testament reading regarding Ruth. You may be seated. Ruth becomes the Old Testament example of these words of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “Whoever loves father or mother…
Living By Faith
[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 in Christ, the text for this morning comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. One of the first prayers you ever memorized, without even realizing it, especially if you grew up in the church, is the Lord’s…
The Victory Has Been Won
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, all three of the texts will be referred to throughout the sermon. You may be seated. From the very moment when you began to reflect on your salvation in Christ, that you are Christ’s child, almost at the…
Find Me, O Lord
[Machine transcription] Making the poor sound guy. There we go. Okay, we’ll go from over here. Okay, so the sheep parable is very interesting. The one that the kids sang about and the one that you heard read to you. Because none of you, not any one of you, have ever experienced this in your life. Because if you’re like me and your family was like my family,…
Finishing the Faith
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. In the Old Testament reading, it started out with some pretty black and white, yes or no, for or against kind of proclamation. Here is kind of the…