Sermons from August 2021
Sermon for Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you, from God the Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. In the church where I grew up, there would be an assembly every Sunday morning before children were dismissed to their Sunday school classes. The Sunday school superintendent would conduct a short devotion consisting of scripture and prayer. The whole…
Sermon for Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, wives, submit to your husbands. Husbands, love your wives. This is the wisdom from St. Paul, and we want to consider it this morning. Paul begins his table of duties, how we are to live as Christians in this fallen world. But let’s take a couple of steps back, and then we’ll get a bit of a…
Sermon for Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Our text for this morning’s sermon is the Gospel reading from the book of John, Gospel of John, which was just read. In the name of Jesus, amen. The people listening to Jesus are confused, and they ask, “How can this man give us his…
Sermon for Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen. Our text for this morning’s sermon is the gospel reading from the book of John that was just read. In the name of Jesus, amen. During World War II, the Nazis forced many 12- and 13-year-old boys to join the junior Gestapo. They were treated…
Sermon for Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Vera, in baptism you have put on Christ. You have put off the old self, the sinful nature, and you are now clothed in the glorious beauty and righteousness of Christ. So that all the victory of Jesus, all his work, all his labor, all his suffering, all his death now belongs to you, and you belong to him. God be…