Sermons
Sermon for Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] The name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear baptized brothers and sisters in Christ, especially you today, Alton, as the same Lord Jesus Christ in holy baptism has written his name on your heart, and he has made you an heir of his kingdom. Amen. I have to admit that preparing for today, especially going into the last part…
Sermon for Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Saints, our Lord Jesus turns to the crowd this morning in the gospel lesson, Luke chapter 14, and he speaks to them, preaches to them about the difficulty of being his disciple. It’s a hard sermon. In fact, the Lord gives three restrictions. He says, unless you do this, you cannot be my disciple. And we want…
Sermon for Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, our Lord Jesus is invited to this dinner at the Pharisees’ house, and he is going to take the occasion to go right after these Pharisees. I mean, he just lays into them. He goes after their legalism. He goes after their pride. He goes after their selfishness. And it’s all laid out here before us.…
Sermon for St. Bartholomew, Apostle
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, I think the Lord would teach us this morning, through St. Bartholomew, how to suffer with hope and with joy. We have Bartholomew, but then the gospel reading about Nathaniel, so it’s good first to just connect the two. It’s done by comparing the list of the apostles from Matthew, Mark, and Luke…
Sermon for Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, this is a hard word that Jesus has for us this morning. When he says, in fact, he asked the question, “Do you think that I have come to bring peace on earth, to give peace on earth?” And he answers his own question, “No. I’ve not come to bring peace, but bring division.” Now how…
Sermon for Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, our Lord Jesus says to us today, do not be anxious. Don’t worry. So if you are not anxious and you’re not worried about anything, you can take the next 20 or 50 minutes and read the Psalms. Or maybe you have a friend who needs to hear it, but we want to hear what the Lord is saying to us, why he…
Sermon for Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] And Jesus said to them, “Take care and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” Please be seated. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Well, dear brothers and sisters in Christ, we’re in that part of the church year…
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…