Sermons from March 2026
Sermon for Palm Sunday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, we celebrate today rightly on Palm Sunday as the triumphal entry of our Lord Jesus. But I think that if we understood it right in its historical context, and even as it’s presented to us in the scriptures, we might, instead of calling it the triumphal entry of Jesus, call it the triumphal entry of…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Nicole, and all of you who bear the Lord’s name and the light of his countenance into the world, and to our confirmands, Kara and Christian, and to all those who have made the martyrs’ promise. Grace to you in peace from our Lord Jesus Christ. The scripture texts take us to a bunch of exotic places…
Sermon for Third Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, our Lord Jesus wants us to know about the unseen reality that surrounds us, and that is the realm of the angels and the fallen angels. the realm of the devil and the demons. Now, he doesn’t want us to know a lot about it. It’s not as if the scriptures is simply a handbook in the geography and…
Sermon for Second Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, this Canaanite woman from our gospel reading today is one of the best examples of faith we can have. Now, this is a rather astonishing thing to say, given that her descendants were those Canaanite pagans who God had commanded Moses and Joshua to destroy in the conquest all those centuries ago. And so…