Sermons (Page 42)
Seeing Jesus in a Different Light
[Machine transcription] Sisters in Christ, using the gospel reading for the text today, please be seated. As a wedding gift, a young couple received a set of rather hideous looking drinking glasses. The couple thought they were junk, but they kept them for everyday use as they didn’t mind that the glasses would get chipped, cracked, broken, or even thrown away. And…
Loving the Enemy
[Machine transcription] God’s grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the gospel reading today for the text, please be seated. And in that gospel reading, Jesus says some pretty hard stuff. Love your enemy. It’s not an easy thing to do, is it? It’s not an easy thing…
A Pre-Lent Easter
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Brothers and sisters in Christ, looking at the second lesson, St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians for the text, please be seated. He is risen. He is risen indeed. I know Lutherans have kind of routinized that; we do that, and we…
Welcome to the boat
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God, our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Our text for this morning comes from our gospel lesson from Luke chapter five. You may be seated. Do you like to fish? I like to fish, although I wouldn’t say I really have any idea what I’m doing. I don’t fish often. I…
What is this Word?
[Machine transcription] May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer. Amen. Brothers and sisters, our text for this morning comes from the Gospel lesson, especially these words: “And they were all amazed and said to one another, What is this word? For with authority and power he commands…
All or Nothin'
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the epistle reading today, the second lesson from Saint Paul’s letter to the Corinthians. Please be seated. Now, even though it’s probably the least favorite musical of Texas Longhorn fans, I have to quote…
A Miraculous Change
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, you’re looking at that gospel reading, the miracle of changing water to wine for our text. Please be seated. There was a picture going around the Internet of a grocery store wine aisle, but the sign that was advertising…
Intertwined with Christ
[Machine transcription] May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer. Amen. The text for this morning comes from the Gospel and the Epistle lessons, especially these words from Romans 6. Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were…
Receiving the Revealing
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, using the Gospel reading, the visit of the three wise men, for the sermon text, please be seated. And that’s what we observe and celebrate on Epiphany Sunday, is the visit of the three wise men. But epiphany is a fancy…
Great Expectations
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the gospel lesson today, we hear words of Jesus about his return. Please be seated. So what are we doing here on a perfectly good New Year’s Eve? Aren’t there better things to do on such a night? There…