Sermons (Page 13)
Sermon for Last Sunday of the Church Year
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, I’m excited because I just noticed something for the first time that I have, I don’t know how many years I’ve been alive, and I’ve never seen it before in the Nicene Creed, that we say I believe in the Holy Spirit, I believe in one holy Christian, an apostolic church, I acknowledge…
Sermon for Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God, our Father, and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear friends in Christ, one of the best-known verses in all the sacred scriptures that will get the hairs on the back of the necks of Lutherans to stand up is: faith apart…
Sermon for Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, we rejoice that our Lord Jesus is returning in glory soon for us. And this for us, for the Christian, is not a frightful thing or something to worry about. It’s, in fact, something joyful and something that we’re looking…
Sermon for All Saints
[Machine transcription] These are they who have come out of the great tribulation. They’ve washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear confirmands, I want to see if I can find you: Garrett and Krista, Jonathan, where are you, Jonathan? Over here. Ah, gotcha. Brandon, are you back there with…
Sermon for Reformation
[Machine transcription] For there is no distinction. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by His grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Amen. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, I want to think today about this hymn that we sang, the – well, I don’t know, the second hymn that we sang…
Sermon for Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Amen. Please…
Sermon for Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment, and he said to him, “Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?” And he was speechless. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear saints, the wedding garment seems to be the main focus of this parable of our Lord…
Sermon for Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Jesus says the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but when it falls on anyone it will crush him. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, there are a number of beautiful pictures all throughout the scriptures of the church, and the descriptions are of how the Lord is and how we are with Him. Just to take an…
Sermon for St Michael and All Angels
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Culture and society often produce sweet and cute images of angels. Hallmark, Etsy, precious moments, they all do their part in this. And there’s fondness for guardian angels, and having guardian angel pins and little plaques on dashboards of…
Sermon for Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ’s Church, before us today in the Holy Gospel is this parable. The title of the parable is called The Laborers in the Vineyard. To truly understand what Jesus is trying to convey to His disciples in this text,…