Sermons from 2025
Sermon for The Holy Innocents, Martyrs
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, in the church we suffer no delusions about Christmas. Only a few days after the birth of Jesus, the blood of infants spills through the small streets of Bethlehem, and the inconsolable weeping of mothers fills the town that had just housed the baby Jesus. The blood, the screaming, the…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday in Advent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. Elizabeth, dear saints, the cousin of Mary, receives this visitor, Mary. Both of them are pregnant. And Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, knows exactly who is visiting her. She says these astonishing words: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And why is this granted to me that…
Sermon for Third Sunday in Advent
[Machine transcription] Jesus says, what then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. This is he of whom it is written, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face who will prepare your way before you.” You may be seated. Dear Wendon, Fabiana, and Amelia, and to all the Lord’s Baptists, whose consciences are made…
Sermon for Second Sunday in Advent
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Advent is about being ready. I think we know that. Our readings starting last week remind us of this. Last week we heard about Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. This week we hear about the coming of the Son of Man. Next week…
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…
Sermon for Reformation
[Machine transcription] There is no distinction for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified by His grace as a gift to the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, through one man sin entered the world and sin brought death, and so death spread to all. All of us are born in bondage to sin,…