Sermons from August 2022
Sermon for Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. It’s the Sabbath day and Jesus is invited out to dinner by some Pharisees, and they were watching him very closely because to this dinner they had also conveniently invited a man who was sick. They sat him there right next to Jesus as if this was going to be a temptation. Now here’s what the Pharisees knew.…
Sermon for Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Dear Saints of God, we rejoice this morning, especially in the gifts that Jesus gives us in His Kingdom, in His Church, in what is said in the Sermon of Hebrews is Mount Zion. But first, I don’t want to skip over the Gospel, because it’s a tough one, and we want to…
Sermon for Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, I’ve heard recently, in fact a lot in the last month or so, of pastors, brothers in the office who were criticized for preaching too much about politics and culture from the pulpit. Now, I understand that criticism because when we talk about these things, we need to take extreme care and be very…
Sermon for Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, Jesus continues to get after us today in the sermon, which is a continuation of the preaching from last week, where Jesus is assaulting the idol of Mammon and our tendency to worship our possessions and live only for this life. There’s a connection between the two texts, actually last week and this…