Sermons from June 2025
Sermon for St Peter and St Paul
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Eilish and Melody, the baptized, and dear confermans who will stand before the Lord and before this church in a few minutes and confess his name to all those who are born again by the Lord’s promise and who trust in his coming. Grace and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ. It is…
Sermon for Second Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, this is a wild story from Luke chapter 8, where Jesus takes his disciples across the Sea of Galilee to the east side, to the region of the garrisons where the pagans were living. He is encountered when he jumps out of the boat by this naked crazy man who was possessed by the devil and the demons. He comes…
Sermon for the Holy Trinity
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I think there’s normally, dear saints, three spots that we trip up in the Athanasian Creed and need to explain. At least three questions that I always get after we confess it. The first is, hey, pastor, are we now saying that we’re saved by our works? Because after…
Sermon for the Day of Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. Dear saints, our work today that the Lord has joyfully given us is to consider the Holy Spirit and the gift of the Holy Spirit that descended upon the upper room those 1,992 years ago today. That Holy Spirit who descended and gave the apostles—who, even though they had seen…
Sermon for Seventh Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] May God grant us His grace and peace. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, why are you here? What brings you to this church on Sunday mornings? What are you here for? The Lord Jesus gets at the heart of this question in this beautiful prayer that He offered right before being arrested and crucified. And St. John wrote it down for us in…