Sermons (Page 51)
Whose Likeness Is This?
[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. Now rightly so, can we fault these goofy Herodians and faithless Pharisees in what they were trying to do with Jesus and twist His words and dishonor…
Come to the Wedding Feast
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers, sisters in Christ, the text is the parable that Jesus spoke. You may be seated. I don’t think, although I could be wrong, I don’t think any of you have a story of your wedding reception that wasn’t without a little…
We’re Only the Tenants
[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 for this morning comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. In the latter part of the Gospel reading, it’s kind of like the light finally went off in those men’s heads. But…
Submission to Authority
[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 primarily comes from the parable of Jesus’ words, but application drawn from both Ezekiel and from Paul’s letter to the Philippians. You may be seated. They are the first four words of…
Troubled but Not Overcome
[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 morning comes from all three texts that will be referred to. You may be seated. So sometime between the very first day of creation and the sixth day of creation, and we know not when because…
Don’t Avoid Conflict
[Machine transcription] If you consider the hymn that we just sang, I hope that as you read it and sang it, you begin to see what the hymn writer was getting at. That the Christian life is full of endurance. The Christian life is not problems solved quickly, problems eliminated rapidly, but problems lead and leave with themselves with us for sometimes decades.…
Truly, Cutting Your Losses
[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 comes from the Gospel reading as well as the Epistle reading. You may be seated. So what does it mean when you are to cut your losses? Well, the first point that you must come to an accurate assessment is,…
To Die For
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Text today for the sermon is taken from the gospel lesson. Please be seated. The old saying goes that there are two things in life that are inevitable: death and taxes. There we go. And they’re probably both equally disliked and avoided, but there…
Yeah. We’re Different
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The text today is from the gospel reading commonly called the Confession of St. Peter. Please be seated. I’m a distance runner by hobby and, well, admittedly by habit, maybe even addiction. And runners, runners are different. In the early 90s, the…
Who Is The Outcast?
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text comes from the Gospel reading, but also in connection with the Old Testament and in the Epistle. You may be seated. In Christ there is no east or west or south or north, as well as the first…