Sermons (Page 48)
A Rested Development
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, for the sermon today, looking at that letter to the Hebrews, please be seated. Rest. What a great word and a great concept. Rest is something we greatly enjoy, but probably too often something we don’t take enough advantage…
What must I do?
[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. Hear it again: “And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before Jesus and asked him, Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus…
A Helper Suitable For Us
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Sermon text mostly from the Old Testament lesson, but also pulling from the other two readings. Please be seated. Adam was walking around in the Garden of Eden, feeling very lonely. So God asked him, “Adam, what’s wrong?” And Adam…
Moses’ Burden, Jesus’ Burden
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, we’ll be looking at the Old Testament reading for today for the sermon text. Please be seated. It was terrible, that burden that I had to carry. The burden of my people. The burden of their greedy, selfish complaining. Ah,…
The Servant Serving Servants
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, be looking at the gospel reading for today for this sermon text. Please be seated. You know, being a servant isn’t particularly popular. People prefer being served. And service-oriented jobs such as janitor, trash collector,…
The Power of What You Say
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Text today looking at that epistle lesson from the letter of James. Please be seated. And that passage from James may be somewhat familiar. Talking about the tongue and how it can be a very powerful thing. What people say can be very powerful, either…
Grand Openings
[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 comes from our Gospel lesson. You may be seated. When a new store or a new attraction comes to town, the business will often celebrate with a grand opening event. The hope is to attract people…
Getting to The Heart of The Matter
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Using the gospel text for our sermon today, please be seated. Some background about that gospel reading today is what we heard last week, actually, that some Jewish religious leaders, Pharisees, approached Jesus and asked him about his disciples,…
That Dreaded Word…
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Sermon text today: we will be looking at that epistle reading, St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. Please be seated. When I do premarital counseling with couples, I suggest to them common Bible verses about marriage that they can use in…
Where Ya Gonna Go?
[Machine transcription] May God’s grace be with you this day in the hearing of His Word, words of eternal life. Amen. The sermon will be looking at the part of the Gospel reading for today. Please be seated. We can see or hear a lot of words on signs, TV, radio, the Internet, all trying to persuade us to go to certain places or do certain things. For example, sale.…