Sermons (Page 35)
Joy in Suffering
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God, our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, amen. Suffering happens, right? We’re no strangers to suffering, especially in our current times, it seems. And suffering happens in several different ways, okay? It happens by natural problems, like hurricanes, fires, floods, earthquakes,…
What Kind of Soil Are You?
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. It was a doctoral student in agriculture who taught me the difference between soil and dirt. She said that soil is what you grow things in. Dirt is what you clean out from underneath your fingernails. I really don’t know much about growing things,…
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. In the Gospel reading today are the beautiful and perhaps familiar words of Jesus about the easy yoke that he gives. But the reading starts as a prayer of Jesus. And then he turns back to the crowd he’s speaking to and kind of shifts gears into…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, we continue to hear Jesus’ instructions from Matthew chapter 10, as we have the last few weeks, where he’s sending out his disciples to bear his name before the world and telling them how it’s gonna go, and it’s not really gonna go well. It’s gonna be difficult. Jesus…
Sermon for Third Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, when I was in high school, I worked at a pizza place, Dion’s Pizza in Albuquerque, New Mexico. And I remember every once in a while, someone would come in and order a pizza with everything on it. I mean, everything. Pineapple and anchovy and sausage and bacon and ham and pepperoni, just the works.…
Sermon for Second Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, we have this beautiful text today, the gospel according to Saint Matthew, chapter 9 and 10, and especially the sending that Jesus does of his disciples out into the cities before him to preach the gospel, the coming of the kingdom of God, to heal the sick, to raise the dead, to cast out demons.…
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, no doubt on the screen that you are watching right now, you have also seen the news of the world falling apart: news of the pandemic bringing death and destruction, economic chaos, news of death and protests and riots in the street. On this same screen…
Sermon for Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ has ascended and seated at the right hand of the Father, and Christ has sent forth his Holy Spirit as he promised. Now this is good. In fact, Jesus has been telling his disciples and us for the last few weeks and right before his crucifixion that it’s…
Sermon for Seventh Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear saints, a few days ago we celebrated the ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ, 40 days after his resurrection, when he ascended into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father, where all kingdoms and powers and authorities are being placed under his feet,…
Sermon for Sixth Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints of God, Jesus knows that it is best for us if we are Christians. He knows that it is best, that this is the best way to be alive, the best way to be a human being, and that is to be a follower of Jesus, to believe in him, to trust in him. Jesus knows. In fact,…