Sermons by Rev. Robert E. LeBlanc
Sermon for Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. To brothers and sisters in Christ, with Jesus of Nazareth standing right before him, I can see Pontius Pilate immediately snapping back with the words, What is truth? What is truth? Our Lord Jesus had just answered the previous question where he was asked, So, you are a king? For Jesus had said, you say that I’m a…
Sermon for Second Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] He looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, stretch out your hand. He stretched it out and his hand was restored in the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear baptized believers in Christ’s church, there was a religious establishment in place when our Lord Jesus came onto the scene when he was 30 years old…
Sermon for Third Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] See my hands and feet in the name of Jesus, amen. Brothers and sisters in Christ, as you bask in the Easter light, the grace and mercy and peace of he who has risen be with each and every one of you. Jesus is risen. That’s easy for us to say. You and I have had centuries where the revelation of Jesus standing before his disciples alive has…
Sermon for Good Friday Tre Ore 5
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the fifth words on the cross that Jesus spoke were two. I thirst. You may be asking yourself, why with all the other phrases, all the words that have just evidence of why they were said, why would Jesus say, I thirst upon the cross? Coming after, my God, my God, why hath Thou forsaken…
Sermon for Lent Midweek 4
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God, our Father and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. The drama that is before us this evening is a debate which can be described as a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public assembly for all to hear the opposing arguments as they are presented. The focus of this particular debate was, who is…
Sermon for Third Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God, our Father, and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen. Have you ever heard someone say, you can’t judge me? That’s what the Bible says, right? You can’t judge me. It’s interesting that this response usually comes after it has been brought to someone’s attention that he or…
Sermon for the Transfiguration of Our Lord
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God, our Father, and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear disciples of Christ Jesus, God loves you, each and every one of you, so much. It’s as the master teacher does the thing of engaging their students each and every day of the school year. Their desire is to enlighten, to enlighten them with…
Sermon for Christmas Day
[Machine transcription] But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. In the name of Jesus, Amen. What a day. The wait is over. You made it. You’re here. In preparation for this day, I have pondered the readings that have been read before us, and I thought to myself, and I’ve lifted prayer to the Lord in…
Sermon for Second Sunday of Advent
[Machine transcription] Beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish and at peace. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, it would be so easy this morning to look at the gospel lesson as only a one-time event in the history so long ago in a country so far away, directed to a specific group of…
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…
