Sermons from March 2019
Who’s the Prodigal?
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the gospel reading for the text today, please be seated. That gospel reading is the probably familiar parable of the prodigal son. And there’s several angles to take in looking at this parable, and my approach…
Sermon for Lent Midweek 4
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the Gospel reading tonight, those words of Jesus, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? I think it’s safe to say that most, if not all, people like to be alone sometimes. But I think it’s also safe to…
Make a You Turn
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the gospel reading today for the text of the sermon, please be seated. A church custodian was painting the pastor’s office, and to avoid opening an additional gallon of paint, he mixed a gallon of paint with some…
Sermon for Lent Midweek 3
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. I can’t even imagine the pain of a mother who loses a son, especially Mary, the mother of Jesus. How can this happen to her? She had heard an angel tell her that she was favored by God and was blessed among women, and that her son’s kingdom…
Speaking the Truth in Love
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the Old Testament reading, the first reading from Jeremiah. Please be seated. The Old Testament is full of prophets of God. In fact, 23 of the 39 books of the Old Testament are written by prophets. Four other books in…
Anointed for Death
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the gospel lesson today, those last words of Jesus: truly you will be with me today in paradise. Please be seated. Again, last week’s service, Ash Wednesday, we focused on the first word of Jesus from the cross:…
The Opening Battle
[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’s sermon comes from the gospel lesson, Luke chapter 4. You may be seated. The old evil foe now means deadly woe. Deep guile and great might are his dread arms in fight. But for us fights…
Seeing Jesus in a Different Light
[Machine transcription] Sisters in Christ, using the gospel reading for the text today, please be seated. As a wedding gift, a young couple received a set of rather hideous looking drinking glasses. The couple thought they were junk, but they kept them for everyday use as they didn’t mind that the glasses would get chipped, cracked, broken, or even thrown away. And…