Sermons from April 2022
Sermon for Second Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] How blessed are they who have not seen, and yet whose faith has constantly been, for they eternal life shall win. Amen. Christ is risen. Alleluia. Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God the Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Don’t be such a doubting Thomas. Odds are you’ve heard this said, maybe to you before. I…
Sermon for Easter Sunday
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Hallelujah. Dear Saints, we rejoice today in this fact, in this truth, in this historical truth that our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified, dead, buried, and raised from the dead. That he left the tomb. There is year after year these surveys of Christians, and they are asked this question: if we found the body of…
Sermon for Good Friday
[Machine transcription] When he had tasted the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.” You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, it is right that we should on this night gather together and remember all that our Lord Jesus suffered for us. It is good for us to consider the agony that he endured those 1,989 years ago, the beating and the…
Sermon for Maundy Thursday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, I was reflecting today on how this, today, is the 1989th anniversary of the institution of the Lord’s Supper, and I started to wonder, and I sort of got carried away wondering, when the Lord thought of it. When did Jesus decide that He would give His church in the New Testament His body to eat and His…
Sermon for Palm Sunday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Reagan, you are clothed in the righteousness of Christ with all the baptized, the glorious robes of his blood and righteousness, and ready now to stand before him on the last day with nothing at all to fear. I know that’s scary, the idea of being judged. And for you, for all of us, because we’ve, ugh, we…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Gabe and all the baptized, there is a miracle at work in baptism. And it is the opposite miracle that the Lord performed in the wilderness. We’ll remember that in the sea, the Lord Jesus makes a path, a dry path for the people to cross through the wilderness. He makes a desert in the ocean. In fact, all…