Sermons from April 2023
Sermon for Fourth Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. This Sunday, you might often hear it referred to as Good Shepherd Sunday, and I think it’s interesting that in our gospel text, we really don’t even get to the verses that talk about the Good Shepherd himself. But to follow the…
Sermon for Ordination and Installation of Pastor Ross Davis
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He has risen indeed, alleluia. Dear Carrie, Sarah, William, dear brother pastors, especially Circuit Visitor Brinstead, dear family and friends of the pastor-elect, Ross Davis, dear saints of God of St. Paul Lutheran Church, dear friends of Jesus, and dear…
Sermon for Third Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Jesus is risen. Hallelujah. What did they see? What did they see? There they were, these two men walking on the road, on the village, to the road, on the road to the village of Emmaus, engulfed in a deep conversation about the things that had happened. Now with each step, they were putting more distance between themselves in Jerusalem. While they…
Sermon for Second Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. Amen. The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground in the garden and then he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being. That was the first gift of life. life, the gift that Adam and Eve squandered in the garden when they ate the…
Sermon for Easter Sunday
[Machine transcription] Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? You may be seated. Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia. God be praised that we are gathered here as we’ve been emphasizing all week on the 1,990th anniversary of our Lord’s death and resurrection from the dead. We want to hone in on those numbers because this…
Sermon for Good Friday
[Machine transcription] Jesus said, I am the light of the world, whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life. Dear children of the light, this Lenten season we have watched and reflected on the journey of our Lord Jesus Christ from Galilee where in Luke 9 it records when the days drew near for him to be taken up. He set his face to go to…
Sermon for Maundy Thursday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, we gather tonight on the anniversary of the institution of the Lord’s Supper, not just to remember what our Lord did those hundreds of years ago, but also to receive the same gift that he put in place, the body and the blood, for our life and salvation and the forgiveness of all of our sins. I want to…
Sermon for Palm Sunday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Saints, Jesus rides into Jerusalem, willfully, desiring your salvation. And he goes to accomplish and to finish what he began. As I have ministered to you and served as your pastor, here, one of the things that I’ve been trying to do is to set you all free from the fear of death, to be unafraid of the last…
