Sermons (Page 4)
Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear saints, we will consider and rejoice in the words of our Lord Jesus about the good Samaritan. I want to preface it with a few words about the tragedy that’s been unfolding in Texas and all the flooding in the last couple of weeks. We had bad news already last week, and the news got even worse this week. As I…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today our Lord Jesus gives us this glimpse of not just what might seem as the apostolic mission to come, but actually the entire mission of the church, the entire church of God, a glimpse of what it will be like and what it is now like to live as…
Sermon for St Peter and St Paul
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Eilish and Melody, the baptized, and dear confermans who will stand before the Lord and before this church in a few minutes and confess his name to all those who are born again by the Lord’s promise and who trust in his coming. Grace and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ. It is…
Sermon for Second Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, this is a wild story from Luke chapter 8, where Jesus takes his disciples across the Sea of Galilee to the east side, to the region of the garrisons where the pagans were living. He is encountered when he jumps out of the boat by this naked crazy man who was possessed by the devil and the demons. He comes…
Sermon for the Holy Trinity
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I think there’s normally, dear saints, three spots that we trip up in the Athanasian Creed and need to explain. At least three questions that I always get after we confess it. The first is, hey, pastor, are we now saying that we’re saved by our works? Because after…
Sermon for the Day of Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. Dear saints, our work today that the Lord has joyfully given us is to consider the Holy Spirit and the gift of the Holy Spirit that descended upon the upper room those 1,992 years ago today. That Holy Spirit who descended and gave the apostles—who, even though they had seen…
Sermon for Seventh Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] May God grant us His grace and peace. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, why are you here? What brings you to this church on Sunday mornings? What are you here for? The Lord Jesus gets at the heart of this question in this beautiful prayer that He offered right before being arrested and crucified. And St. John wrote it down for us in…
Sermon for the Ascension of Our Lord
[Machine transcription] While they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking into heaven? This Jesus who has taken up from you into heaven will come in the same way you saw him go into heaven.” Christ is risen. He has risen indeed. In the name of Jesus. Amen. You may be seated.…
Sermon for Sixth Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen, he has risen indeed. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Mark and Hank and Noah, to all the baptized and to all those who confess our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord Jesus, in the gospel lesson tonight, is giving his last sermon. In fact, this is the last part of his last sermon to his disciples. Right after the words that we…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] When they heard these things, they fell silent and they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also, God has granted repentance that leads to life.” Christ is risen. He has risen indeed. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, we are going to end up right there with that text from Acts chapter 11 that God has…