Sermons from September 2018
Moses’ Burden, Jesus’ Burden
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, we’ll be looking at the Old Testament reading for today for the sermon text. Please be seated. It was terrible, that burden that I had to carry. The burden of my people. The burden of their greedy, selfish complaining. Ah,…
The Servant Serving Servants
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, be looking at the gospel reading for today for this sermon text. Please be seated. You know, being a servant isn’t particularly popular. People prefer being served. And service-oriented jobs such as janitor, trash collector,…
The Power of What You Say
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Text today looking at that epistle lesson from the letter of James. Please be seated. And that passage from James may be somewhat familiar. Talking about the tongue and how it can be a very powerful thing. What people say can be very powerful, either…
Grand Openings
[Machine transcription] May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer. Amen. Our text for this morning comes from our Gospel lesson. You may be seated. When a new store or a new attraction comes to town, the business will often celebrate with a grand opening event. The hope is to attract people…
Getting to The Heart of The Matter
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Using the gospel text for our sermon today, please be seated. Some background about that gospel reading today is what we heard last week, actually, that some Jewish religious leaders, Pharisees, approached Jesus and asked him about his disciples,…