Sermons

Sermons

Sermon for Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear saints, a good friend of mine, Pastor Paul’s up in Idaho, summarized prayer better than anyone I think I’ve ever heard summarize it. He says, prayer is the children of God saying, but Dad, you promised. And I think that’s perfect, just exactly how Jesus teaches us to pray. But, Dad, you promised.…

Sermon for Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] May God grant us His grace and peace. Dear Christians, when the Son of God, long before His incarnation, came to visit our Father in the faith Abraham, Abraham received Him with all eagerness. He probably didn’t even know at first that it was the Lord, specifically the Son of God, disguised as a man and accompanied by two angels, but his…

Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear saints, we will consider and rejoice in the words of our Lord Jesus about the good Samaritan. I want to preface it with a few words about the tragedy that’s been unfolding in Texas and all the flooding in the last couple of weeks. We had bad news already last week, and the news got even worse this week. As I…

Sermon for Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today our Lord Jesus gives us this glimpse of not just what might seem as the apostolic mission to come, but actually the entire mission of the church, the entire church of God, a glimpse of what it will be like and what it is now like to live as…

Sermon for St Peter and St Paul

[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Eilish and Melody, the baptized, and dear confermans who will stand before the Lord and before this church in a few minutes and confess his name to all those who are born again by the Lord’s promise and who trust in his coming. Grace and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ. It is…

Sermon for Second Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, this is a wild story from Luke chapter 8, where Jesus takes his disciples across the Sea of Galilee to the east side, to the region of the garrisons where the pagans were living. He is encountered when he jumps out of the boat by this naked crazy man who was possessed by the devil and the demons. He comes…

Sermon for the Holy Trinity

[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I think there’s normally, dear saints, three spots that we trip up in the Athanasian Creed and need to explain. At least three questions that I always get after we confess it. The first is, hey, pastor, are we now saying that we’re saved by our works? Because after…