Sermons from November 2025
Sermon for First Sunday in Advent
[Machine transcription] Say to the daughter of Zion, behold, your king is coming to you, humble, mounted on a donkey. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, the gospel reading today, Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, stands at the beginning of the church year like a banner. It’s a way of setting apart not only the season of Advent,…
Sermon for Last Sunday of the Church Year
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, the Lord gathers us together to hear His word, and especially on the last Sunday of the church year, so that we would think about the end—the end of our own lives and the end of the world. And how to be ready for those. How to be ready to breathe our last day. How to be ready to meet our maker, how to be…
Sermon for Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, pay attention. The day is coming. The prophet Malachi warns. It is burning like an oven. All the insolent and evil-doers shall be as stubble. The day shall set them ablaze. Dearly beloved, as we approach the…
Sermon for Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Now Jesus says, “Now God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.” You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, the text today takes us to Holy Tuesday, to just the week of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection, and…
Sermon for All Saints
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Most of us have been to a Christian funeral, and we know that such events are rather somber occasions marked by grief, by pain, and a very deep sense of loss. And often, the community of family and friends will gather together to sympathize and to share in the loss that they all feel. It’s really a tragic and twisted…