Sermons by Rev. Dr. Mark S. Nuckols, Senior Pastor (Page 5)
Sermon for Advent Midweek 2
[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, the text comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. As you remember, last Wednesday was the angel Gabriel coming to Zechariah and telling him that he and his bride Elizabeth, who were both advanced in years, would…
He Speaks Tenderly To You
[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 prophet Isaiah, the Old Testament reading. You may be seated. So though the text comes from the prophet Isaiah, we will also be talking about a certain prophet named John the Baptist, whose…
Sermon for Advent Midweek 1
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The text comes from the Gospel reading. There are three parts to this three-week Advent. The first part is tonight about the promise. And the promise is tied directly into, as you heard, the birth or the conception as well of the one forerunner of…
We Are the Work of Your Hand
[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 Old Testament reading, the prophet Isaiah’s proclamation. You may be seated. It’s always been the temptation of mankind to remove themselves from others who don’t share…
Light in the Day of Darkness
[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, on this last Sunday, it is the parable of the sheep and the goats as the text for the sermon. You may be seated. The last several weeks, as you remember, have been texts and hymns that talk about Judgment Day.…
He is NOT a Hard Man
[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 Gospel reading, that parable we heard. You may be seated. Christianity as a faith, unfortunately, has been misused as only being a religion of “don’t do this.” Now that is…
Light in the Day of Darkness
[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 is the parable of the ten virgins. You may be seated. Surely you have thought about this in recent weeks and in recent months. You just finished barely processing the heinous shooting…
Faithful Shepherd Lead Us
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The text for this morning’s sermon comes from St. John’s Revelation, the first reading, and that heavenly vision that he was given for your sake and mine. You may be seated. Though many Christians have taken revelations about saints…
The Truth of Freedom
[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 for this morning was the one heard in your midst from the Holy Gospel of St. John. You may be seated. The two facets to this profound and most beneficial movement within Christendom are these two things.…
Whose Likeness Is This?
[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. Now rightly so, can we fault these goofy Herodians and faithless Pharisees in what they were trying to do with Jesus and twist His words and dishonor…