Sermons (Page 29)
Sermon for Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Vera, in baptism you have put on Christ. You have put off the old self, the sinful nature, and you are now clothed in the glorious beauty and righteousness of Christ. So that all the victory of Jesus, all his work, all his labor, all his suffering, all his death now belongs to you, and you belong to him. God be…
Sermon for Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints of God, we give thanks to God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit that He has given us His word, and most especially, we thank Him for this most blessed letter of St. Paul to the saints of God in Ephesus. We’ve been studying it. The last couple of weeks, we did chapter 2—the end…
Sermon for Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Catherine, God be praised that though you are dead, that’s how Paul talks about us today in the text—we are dead in trespasses and sins, and yet the Lord has made us alive in Christ for you and for all the baptized, be raised from the dead through the waters of holy baptism. Paul says, don’t you know…
Sermon for Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Everly and all the baptized, Paul in this epistle lesson has a list of seven blessings, and the last one refers to you today. In him also you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit. That means that the Lord Jesus has marked you as one redeemed by his death and resurrection, has covered you with his blood, has…
Sermon for Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, Saint Peter warns us about scoffers coming in the last day. He says this, he says, know this first, I’m in 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 3, know this first, that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts. Now, how will you recognize a scoffer? How will you know if you’ve…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. It’s my habit to get up early every day and go for a run. And it’s my habit to pray Lamentations chapter 3, verses 22 and 23 on my run. I’m going to read it for you again; it’s the Old Testament reading. The steadfast love of…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, you should have no other gods. This means that you should fear, love, and trust in God above all things. Now, whenever I think about that, the emphasis in my mind always goes to the fearing and loving and trusting. It’s like, I used to wait tables at the seminary and this is how I think of it: like,…
Sermon for Third Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps at night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows. He knows not how. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints of God, Jesus in this parable wants us to not know something. This is different than most parables. In most parables, Jesus is teaching us…
Sermon for Second Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints of God, we constantly face judgment, and I want to put these two things in contrast with one another: the judgment of the world and the judgment of the Lord. Now, Paul, if you could – I’d like you guys to maybe look at the Scriptures that we’re looking at, so I’m on page 5 for the Epistle…
Sermon for Trinity
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Dear Saints of God, in just a few minutes we will confess together our faith in the words of the Athanasian Creed. Every year when we confess the Creed on Trinity Sunday, there are always questions about it afterwards, and I want to just address those questions now before we…