Sermons from January 2023
Sermon for Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, and especially to you who will stand up here in a few minutes and give your confession in the name of Jesus, before His altar and before His people. Grace to you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus sits His disciples down and the followers, they’re on the mountain in…
Sermon for Third Sunday after Epiphany
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints of God, we hear today of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the beginning of His ministry, and its fulfilling of the promise of Isaiah chapter 9 that by the way of Zebulun and Naphtali, by the way of the sea in the land of the Gentiles, a light has shone. I think that’s what makes this, by the way, an epiphany…
Sermon for Second Sunday after Epiphany
[Machine transcription] John said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, we go to the River Jordan again today to hear this preaching of John. Some of the last preaching that we’ll hear of John, but his most glorious preaching. Because he preaches with his finger as well as with his…
Sermon for the Baptism of Our Lord
[Machine transcription] I don’t know how it is, dear saints, in your mind when you picture the baptism of Jesus, but I always think of John the Baptist, this old, grisly man with his big, gray beard and crazy hair standing there in the middle of the Jordan River. I have to remember that he was only 30 years old, maybe 31. Jesus was 30. and Jesus comes down to him as…
Sermon for the Epiphany of Our Lord
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, a blessed epiphany to you as we celebrate how the Lord Jesus reveals himself also to the Gentiles. And we remember tonight how the Lord sent the wise men from the east to find the child Jesus in the home in Bethlehem and fall down and worship him. Now, this story, this biblical history, has always, to me,…
Sermon for First Sunday after Christmas
[Machine transcription] Rise and take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to destroy him. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear baptized believers in Christ’s Church, Happy New Year! But what is happiness? Where do you find happiness? The unbelieving world has already moved on past the…
