Sermons (Page 43)
Seeing Jesus
[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 reading today, especially about the prophet Simeon, please be seated. Speaking of Simeon, it would be no surprise if you’re jealous of him. Because in that gospel reading today, he not only saw baby…
Christmas is weird
[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 reading for today, especially where it says the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, please be seated. Christmas is here, isn’t it wonderful? As the song says, it’s the most wonderful time of…
The Manger and the Cross
[Machine transcription] With you and all your families this blessed holiday, please be seated. I can’t relate, but I understand that the birth of a baby is pretty awesome, and that’s what we celebrate: the birth of baby Jesus. Babies are so cute; even a fake baby Jesus lying in a manger always seems so cute. People seem to love baby Jesus, especially Ricky…
It's the Little Things
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the Old Testament reading from the prophet Micah for the text, please be seated. In a TV show years ago called Kids Say the Darnedest Things, kids were asked questions. They would usually say something silly and people…
The Light of Acts of Service
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Tonight, looking mostly at the gospel reading of Jesus reading from the scriptures the prophet Isaiah in the synagogue. Please be seated. We get a lot of Isaiah tonight, actually. Part of that is because the ongoing verse that we’ve been using,…
Rejoice. Be gentle. Don’t be anxious. Pray
[Machine transcription] Praise, mercy, and love to Him, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters in Christ, using the reading from Philippians as our text today, please be seated. I was talking with a student at University of Lutheran about their concern over the political climate of the world and even the possibility of a World War III they were…
The Light of Physical Touch
[Machine transcription] Brothers and sisters, kind of looking at all of the readings tonight as part of the text. Please be seated. Physical touch is oftentimes more than simply a physical connection. There’s usually more behind it. An example is a handshake when agreements are made and sealed by the physical touch that joins the two people together in that…
Advent and Baptism
[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. Our text for this morning is the Gospel lesson and these two verses immediately following. As the people were in expectation, all were questioning in their hearts concerning John whether he might be the Christ. John…
The Light of Time
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at Isaiah’s passage tonight and from Galatians as well, please be seated. The day after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday, but for Marsha and I, and maybe some other people as well, it could be called Light Friday because…
Waiting and Looking Forward
[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 Old Testament reading from Jeremiah as the text, please be seated. People generally like to look forward to certain things: vacation, parties, births, anniversaries. And of course, this time of year, we’re…