Sermons from 2018 (Page 6)
Lifted Up on a Tree
[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 texts for this morning are both the Old Testament and the Gospel reading. You may be seated. Now, even though I may fancy myself to be a theologian, I would have never made this connection. Because this…
Bearing True Witness
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, the text is that gospel reading about the so-called trial before Caiaphas, the high priest. The prophet Isaiah, 700 years before Jesus ever went through this scene, prophesied specifically about what happened in this scene when…
I Am the Temple
[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 is the Gospel reading. You may be seated. This morning’s Gospel reading is one of those texts that on first glance it’s hard to understand it. And for that matter, at second and third and…
He, Alone, Drinks the Cup
[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, the text comes from the Gospel reading, the scene in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus does not begin this scene with sugarcoating anything. He tells all of the twelve who have been with Him for three years that not some…
The Way of the Cross
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers, dear sisters in Christ, the text comes from the Gospel reading, especially there’s a part in the Epistle as well. You may be seated. As my bride and I have grown older, we’ve become more appreciative of things that my…
Anointed for Death
[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 that Gospel reading. You may be seated. So this evening’s text from the Gospel reading happened on about a Wednesday, but no later than Thursday of Holy Week. So, within just a matter…
God’s Tests
[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 first Sunday in Lent comes from James’ epistle. You may be seated. The first Sunday in the season of Lent is a lot like Christmas, or Easter, or other major holidays. A Lutheran Christian…
Sermon for Ash Wednesday
[Machine transcription] From 2 Corinthians chapter 5, we implore you on behalf of Christ to be reconciled to God. For our sake, he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. So far the text. People have many ideas about Lent. Some see it as a time to deny themselves some pleasure. You may have even been asked the question,…
The Removal of the Veil
[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, on this Transfiguration Sunday, the text comes from the Epistle reading of St. Paul. You may be seated. What you heard read in your ears in the Gospel reading happens only twice in all of Scripture, where the voice of…
Your Way is Not Hidden
[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 comes from Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, the Epistle reading. You may be seated. Some of you remember, and many of you filled it out. We had a questionnaire, both online and in…