Sermons (Page 54)
He is NOT a Hard Man
[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, that parable we heard. You may be seated. Christianity as a faith, unfortunately, has been misused as only being a religion of “don’t do this.” Now that is…
Light in the Day of Darkness
[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 is the parable of the ten virgins. You may be seated. Surely you have thought about this in recent weeks and in recent months. You just finished barely processing the heinous shooting…
Faithful Shepherd Lead Us
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The text for this morning’s sermon comes from St. John’s Revelation, the first reading, and that heavenly vision that he was given for your sake and mine. You may be seated. Though many Christians have taken revelations about saints…
The Truth of Freedom
[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 was the one heard in your midst from the Holy Gospel of St. John. You may be seated. The two facets to this profound and most beneficial movement within Christendom are these two things.…
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.…