Sermons by Rev. Dr. Mark S. Nuckols, Senior Pastor (Page 33)
You Do Know Him, Don’t You?
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. Hallelujah. We continue to celebrate the resurrection. Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The words, “let not your hearts be troubled,” unless you and I are going through a tribulation or trial, those words do not have the deep meaning as when we are going…
The Voice of the Shepherd
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen! Hallelujah! We continue to celebrate the glorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus. Today, on this fourth Sunday after Easter, or of Easter, typically always the Scripture readings center around a theme that is referred to often as the Good Shepherd Sunday. The Scripture readings, the hymns, all of it comes together. And what an…
Eyes Were Opened
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He’s risen indeed. Hallelujah. We continue to celebrate the glorious season of Easter for the next several weeks before we celebrate His ascension into heaven. Eyes were open, weren’t they? Opened indeed to see something they had never seen before. Adam and Eve, that is. Recall that Adam and Eve’s eyes, prior to…
Christ’s Resurrection Makes Us Different
[Machine transcription] He is risen! Grace, mercy, and peace to you on this glorious day of our victory. Brothers and sisters, this is our day of victory. And this day of victory, of which we mark and celebrate as a feast, sets us apart from the rest of the world. But where we come into contact with it most is here in this country. It sets us apart from the people with…
The Injustice of It All is What We Worship!
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. As human beings, as sinful creatures, we have a fascination with death. Why is it then that we slow down on an interstate to see the carnage of a wreck? Why is it that we tune in to the news to find out about the tragedy and the travesty of the…
From Death to Life
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The great prophet Solomon wrote an interesting sentence in the 14th chapter of his book of wisdom known as Proverbs. It goes like this: “There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.” The application of…
Born of the Flesh and Born of the Spirit
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. You may be seated. A young man came to me on my second tour of duty in Iraq, struggling with a spiritual matter. He wasn’t a part of the Lutheran congregation; he was just some kid in the unit. But he was tripped up by a two-word phrase…
Lead Us Not Into Temptation, But Deliver Us From Evil
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Think about it; Lent really is kind of a microcosm of our baptized life in Christ. The collect that Pastor prayed, that we all prayed together, said, “Guide the people of…
He Who Bore Our Scorn
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you, from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Now that was a crazy thing going on in the state of Wisconsin right now. It’s a crazy thing. Yet every system of care that man can invent, whether it’s government, or for that matter, even godly, it can be abused, can’t it?…
The Necessity of Reconciliation
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The last couple of Sundays, the sermons have been based upon the Sermon on the Mount from our Lord Jesus. It is the longest recorded dialogue of our Lord. It is in the 5th, the 6th, and the 7th chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew. In it, Jesus…