Sermons (Page 48)
He Opens Your Mind
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters in Christ, the text for this Sunday and Easter comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. It is in this morning’s text where Jesus is said to have opened their minds. Now the people about which Jesus that was said…
Peace Be With You
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Sermon today will be looking at the gospel reading. Please be seated. And I love this gospel reading because it has so many options for preaching in it. And I don’t like this reading because it has so many options for preaching in it. So…
He Swallowed Up Death
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters in Christ, the text comes from the Gospel reading that you heard read among you. You may be seated. Christ is risen! This is the day that the Lord has made. Because on this day, of all days, was the day He chose to be raised from the dead. The first day of…
Sermon for Good Friday
[Machine transcription] This evening you will hear from the Gospel according to St. John and the Passion account from there. There are several things that I want you to pay attention to and listen for. Some very unique things happened, several miracles even. At the very beginning of the text, when Jesus is in the garden and His disciples are there gathered around Him and…
As It Is Written of Him
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. I don’t think any of us would put up with it or we would be shocked out of our skin. Did you hear what Moses did with half of the blood that had been gathered from all of the animals that were sacrificed? We know half of it went against the…
In the Name of the Lord
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. Did it ever occur to you the interesting connection with Jesus riding this donkey into Jerusalem? Because the only time, other than this recorded…
Lifted Up on a Tree
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the texts for this morning are both the Old Testament and the Gospel reading. You may be seated. Now, even though I may fancy myself to be a theologian, I would have never made this connection. Because this…
Bearing True Witness
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, the text is that gospel reading about the so-called trial before Caiaphas, the high priest. The prophet Isaiah, 700 years before Jesus ever went through this scene, prophesied specifically about what happened in this scene when…
I Am the Temple
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text is the Gospel reading. You may be seated. This morning’s Gospel reading is one of those texts that on first glance it’s hard to understand it. And for that matter, at second and third and…
He, Alone, Drinks the Cup
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters, the text comes from the Gospel reading, the scene in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus does not begin this scene with sugarcoating anything. He tells all of the twelve who have been with Him for three years that not some…